we stare at each other / the cat runs back to the bushes
run / lines of police / they enraged
because it is them visibly wrenching the city but others,
elect in passivity, succored, that they have softness in their spaces
but rigidly determined order for outside,
inside rotting
it more & made this condition if one touches it
in the rot is that seed of undoing?
to not just take disease so it’s imposed on how they are seen,
that’s not infection/ phasing blue the red over the grid in that income are bodies, zone together
B: it’s totally dissolved feeling I’m not even an active participant we weak together
weak weak not even shared.
(pause)
Ada: your moss which is to absorb them tenderly and it’s growth is political, green pods upright, scurrying over surface, the circles of circular flowers in the center of the wet, mossy, mouth
B: rain.
Ada: hungry not neat as um
B: um, trying this movements / the crowd in the form of against this professional looking-up
Ada: smelling of JP Morgan. This business does not smell at all ecumenical still valence shell of these numbers.
Ada: I think it is verse.
B: versus some cultural fugues the commonness / incident
Ada:
Ada:
Ada:
Ada: mote / past
B: I was uh here with you
when they moved it through the crowd
that loud still / so I can like the imaging
we’ve shared I hope, wasn’t it?
I’m cool it’s very crowded and I say /
I can say that this standing
with that is valuable / it’s the eye of or not
being secure being help or held by then
who were really with
us
oozing in the owned park
rose up with the oozing circumference
there’s some second thought it’s cold
can we be together in
momentous opposition
resting
restoring resistance
set the insistent calipers
got them out ooze mind
it said, rounding now and going homeward
it said, are you sure of your weight of wealth of being away
it said, are you sure the ghosts are human
it said, spirit presences collude the square room
it said, & the formal one the slow dripping in space
it said, cantilevered power measure hinged
like the string conceived separate section
often a time, rounding dark carved tunnels, spacious weaving under
neath that is where they enter
so you consent to being accessed for surveillance
such would be knowledge gust from the comfort of flesh,
so suspect gathering lit above, under pools we can collect there present / operand
It is a trough or trench with sharpened sticks secured and angled outward
so that you think of your displaced breath
decoding agent suspect loud as do is to sprawls as zygote barrelling transparent is it this
that could be filled up with inadequate morphing sentiment leftover
razing red yellow instead the behavior
instead another exercise against
fear and persistent sorrow
Ada to engage is not that
being further against lining wintry
great invert
burn in this the
anomaly soothed or crush
it is new external mark
hailed flowering mouth
that they are negative will scar them right?
just flowering never to concede
of the
dead
of the
flowers
of the
seared
place pulses so that
felt spiking
SEMBLANCE EXPLORED DISCOVERY
then this semblance explored discovery inverting
spherical
your world turned is not
not synapse sinew inward projecting now our commun-
icative present
some get more than others
leafy and
with dirt
living in the muddy slope
rose I the symptoms
so withdrawing leafy surround filtered cool
wild outer limiting not / giving to us no / escape
ADA our distinct schlock
wintering military as all occupation
varied dis
ease
semblance body
domed quarter of the city
interpolating light
rest their attention, move among cratered walls
on the hands
shamed out of our we semblance
wood heft / weight of home territory and nomadic movement
purpling surface ink
leak to wonderment
Geoffrey Olsen lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is the author of the chapbooks Not of Distends * Address Panicked (Minutes Books, 2011) and End Notebook (Petrichord Books; 2008).