The Annotated Here: New and Selected Poems
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The Annotated "Here"

The here of actual space, addressed

in face, to face

proximally yet aesthetically in pencil

like an eyelash

an eyelash addressing the canvas

which tantalizes.

And so forth.

"And so forth," meaning "setting out"

reiteratively from the heartland.

The here throughout actual space addressing

your face essentially in pencil

like an eyelash acquainted with the canvas’s

indolent pressure.

And so forth.

"And so forth," meaning "setting out"

reiteratively from the heartland.

The throughout weave

of face essentially

the weft in pencil

abstaining from canvas.

A parallelism

of focus and of setting out

permitted us this facility.

Also available by this author:

• Word Group
• Isle of the Signatories