introduction

8.  something brought in from elsewhere
or created
9.  the insertion of something
somewhere
--Encarta World English Dictionary


genes say, redefine perception. 
meaning, in everyday terms. 

embodied existence.
managing the self.

veins, compression

b / cause
legs bear immense weight.

duality of night, day
becomes out & in

down & up.

distortion, turns on itself.


 

weaning

2.  to cause somebody to go without
something that has become a habit or
that is much liked
--Encarta World English Dictionary


still, a well
a bloated ocean

bouyed in black breast
casing, underwire,
slipping

froth
churn

still, thoughts of
seeking require will

leave stains.

 

departure

3.  a course of action or the beginning
of one
--Encarta World English Dictionary


beginning often leaves
    (leaves imperfections

eating becomes complex
a whole composed of various
interrelated parts
(
esophagus blocked by holes

warbling understood
in dew, shadowed un
der you, standing

pressed, confessions
reveal stretch marks
unremarked possessions

tidy piles of life
    compartmentalized)
left behind
        a messy heap


 

8 exercises on a spoon


(1)

one cousin used a spoon
to scoop eyes out of minnows

caught in a large rubber dinghy
kept for skimming the surface
of the lake, blue-green now
with algae: 

neighbors say motorboats
are the problem

(2) & (3)

fallen, especially on the floor, one
spoon becomes ostracized

another becomes a stranded utensil
entombed at the playground
               
, beneath the sand 

(4)

smooth curve of a spoon holds
the ball of your thumb sweetly,
tender nestling succumbing

(5)
 
see how this reflection
distorts everything--

noses bigger, eyes of pins,
who can trust it?

(6)

imagined, bending

an invisible eye

(7)

fed one day:  an elder
with strawberry ripple

her favourite from when
she was nine

(8)

divided, a flock of bohemian
waxwings struck the window

such force, the whole
house was awoken-- 

three lay twitching, one still: 
dying separately    
               
grave dug with a spoon, birds
swept within the hollowed
comb

death the smell of
surfaces, memorized