Objective Collapse Theories
looking back
the sea is not a boundary
--
you are confused
synthesis
a wind-up
slide it under this skin
builders of stone
again
--
You are and are not an inadequate seeker.
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we are ready
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national geography
--
the end of the sentence is always you
--
hematite cylinder seal
depicting Shamash
rolled out onto wet clay
--
you think about the ghosts you make every day
--
think the wall is another room
--
Narcissus reads
it’s a wind
--
predicate reality south of
stone that was soft
and red, skin left in the sun
--
looking down at rubbish
--
the first letter must be obliterated, forming the word met
--
a body of animals
a simple thought
things buried in the ground
--
are not we ready
Narcissus beholden to the sea
--
they removed a clay tablet
from below the sternum—
extending the bone in the shape
of the body lain around it
--
all things break when they’re small
--
a building has several exits
leave anytime you want
little twists
--
count your counting
in another
--
nothing of the bridge
requires the river
to run beneath it
Note: Respectively, the italicized lines are taken from Jenny Boully’s The Book of Beginnings and Endings, and Matthew Goulish’s 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance.
