for Zali Gurevitch

1
In arranging
the particulars
there are
things you
forget to
re-collect:
two hands
of a clock
are two rock feet
in a river
the water
moves around
the moments
(remembering
themselves)
occur
arranging
from the edges
of a thread
ways
written through
relief

2
How do you write
density
when the river itself
isn’t dense
& forgets
itself
as it flows
over the rocks?

3
The things
a river forgets
are not the same
things we forget
to re-collect. The
“the” of the clock
& the distance between
“a” and “the”
rattle of psephos 
is evidence of us
restlessly arranging
on a page
pulverized by
an un-remitting mind

4
This
is the clock
it says; this is a 
clock, it says;
Watch it! it says—
time’s up. 

Originally published in White Wall Review 40 (2016)