Aught, no. 10 (2003)
Catherine Daly
I
leave to trace,
edit through.
between hand and and
boundary, limit, possibility
obvious
only far from change
with two hands.
immersed within
anxiety, boredom white, pleasant
hey to make figures
to figure
falls away.
try to fill,
fill background.
no one knows what this looked like.
felt like close to random but worse
then, closer.
all interstice rock wind
astronomy
to only have secrets.
to talk it out aloud alone,
later work.
obsession with search
for water, ice. the world needs pleasure.
to be found. release.
catch and release.
leave no trace.
these prints everywhere.
linocuts.
like, like
solve
field
field with cacti.
field with mountain lion
danger,
full with danger growing and chaparral.
listen.
drive to figure
to populate
to civilization, down, down,
out of the park
dark shapes
background not fear
lack
proportions separate from life.
only close with hands
(but they've added a gap)
close before making
then,
closer,
too close
can anything be that close? and obscured
after
action?
polish
dish
out, chance
fortune, the swirl,
no water, sand
all
never
not evoke feeling.
release
foreground
background
figure
field
arbitrary nature
golden
only opening
Betty with child. They'll call his name "Betty's son," which being interpreted is Betty's son.
If Betty is past the flower of her age, let him do what he will, he doesn't sin let them marry.
I have espoused Betty to one husband, that I may present her to Christ.
Espoused to a man whose name was Mr. Betty; and she was Betty.
If you marry, you haven't sinned; if Betty marries, she hasn't sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh but I spare you.
There is difference between a wife and Betty as a wife. She that is married cares for the things of the world, i.e., how she may please her husband. [As for Betty, no mention.]
Author's Note
"New poems based on 'Number Nine' and 'Alma.' 'I' is the ninth letter."
Copyright © 2003, by the author.
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