All This Buttoning And Unbuttoning (collaboration with Zazie: http://www.zazie.at/Index/)

                 

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                                                                           On the beachhead of Harvard in late afternoon

 

                                                                     she mends the diamond sappho that had fallen

 

                                                                     around the base of culture’s apple tree

 

                                                                     in which Death had been trapped

 

                                                                     her hair done up in foil watching

 

                                                                     late afternoon’s delicate engineer

 

                                                                     pry open the inexhaustible handbags

 

                                                                     exuded by the females

 

                                                                     who make their nests beneath the sundials

 

                                                                     during a long pause

 

                                                                     in a soldier’s conversation

 

                                                                    with a chrysanthemum bank

 

                                                                    about her intelligent mouth

 

                                                                    influenced by Fourier’s quaint notion

 

                                                                    of the ideal sliding window.

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