What are the terms of disappearance?
Anyone's disappearance?
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Inhabited by ghosts
He She Thee
Their voices intimate as clover
to a child's ear on grass:
"She talks to me today -
He, too."
A transparent sense of City,
historical layer upon layer.
The perforated beach, little holes
in the sand, the spray of clams,
an arc of shiny salt water
through which one hears:
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A stretch of kelp below the cliff
A layer of thought, or the lack of:
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To frame the self against the details:
the face against the found jar, the found
classical Greek vase, the found rusted orange
in which the fracture of Apollo
plies three missing fingers against
the cracked, faded harp, once gold:
This object available for $375 on Castro Street.
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A conscious history. Conscious to make history.
A requirement to be conscious. To be pulled
by the details. To maximize the presence
in which a detail knocks you off your
Stephen Vincent
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
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