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Spectacle of the Untitled

dreaming color onto gray
dreaming     with open eyes
sometimes I think about nowhere, how 
I'll never see that same 
woman walk that particular way 
down that street donning those same 
shoes with that easy smile
again     slowly etching lines 
collect in turn their tears, as sodden
woodwork of a loose-tied paddle boat
catches rain      grows weak       but 
what a spectacle she is in the fog!

light shifting by the hour, pooling 
round ever-drifting terrain      tell us
new tales that seem familiar
(all is revisionary collage-work)
laughter carries the growing 
light-weight of nothing as hours
fold into years      scramble your eggs

savor the spectacle of the untitled
unfolding (to out itself) by every 
method      the disarrangement of your things
(I'm thinking of socks painting floors
but just the right dosage, how 
the sound of rain is glorious, soft moans 
that slip from your mouth when...)

Copyright © Erin Beckett

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