Monday, December 18, 2006

Stuff

There is enough of it. Whatever suits your purposes
Is ready to hand. Try stacking it on itself,
Or welding it together. Separate it into separate piles,
Then abstract from each each tiny grain --
What it's made of. Line up the grains; push
One of them down -- it'll mush or it splits
If you pare it with your pinky-nail. And is that everything?
Yes, in different kinds, in different shapes and to different degrees;
faster or slower, sometimes standing still, even then
Perhaps still trembling, hooking or snaking or circling around
Itself. What else? See it move. See it settle and wait.

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