Paddle out ahead
Time
Born
Capable in increments
Stubborn or wind, barely marked
Closer and closer to smooth shores
Thinking: sink
Thinking: swim

2
Stutter amicable
“sundering my drenched coat”
Suic—
Suit—
Marks of antecedence, orbs up
or comets
When passengers
Strident against our will
Amic—
Whose increments are impediments here
Tonic
Orpheus or orpha-n
Doubt me

3
Every wind matters.
The integrity of a ship,
a route or a human face
depends on wind.
Thinking swims in such current.
To paddle out there on air
avoids sink/ing
Cherish wind.

Wind’s amnesia
lent offboard to west shores
Mellifluous
or bordered
Capable in increments

4
Filament of verged light

of horizon
Trees, water, each topogreme or feature
imitates us
torn flat in bodies
willing forward
wind’s ambergris sanctuary
cut or
forage contour
intervals deep/at sea

5
Ambidextrous in bream
settled coraxe in life and lines
Faust
Parallel horizon to
Paddle out ahead
thinking
thinking
small flicks of air and nodes of every

minute’s f/ray

st/rain

6
abstinent welcome or rejecture
in halo’s immanence
anticip—
hearticulate
we it was not often or easily that we went into that fog or void and would there be a fissure or would there be a orifice of warmth or recognition and a human place for intellect and infatuation // it is a story of light’s movement across a screen // it is a way of asserting being’s tremulous oracle that needs a soil to gestate germinate

Originally published in White Wall Review 40 (2016)