Susan Clark

To Wound, To Wind

     
                                                             By good I shall mean that which                                                         
                                                             we certainly know to be useful  to us"
                                                                                           -Spinoza     
     
             
                                                     -ane, suf.
                                                     blot
     
     The reader's blood
     eyed the blood
     on the page and
     fell
     
                             a bag of bones with wings
                             hairs out of place
                             -someone's sight brought me
     
                             always devoting space 
                             fishing upwards
                             down here
                             leer a leash
                             overtaken
     
                             as the road
     
                             it's meager timeline, clothy
     
                     ". . . holding up her own blood, even mentioning the material"
     
                                                                             -least between-
     
                             ruthe fr.
                             tender pences
                             cf. lingual
     
     A bit of brain'd
     light was never
     
     falling
     falling mazed
     mazed
     
     amid their bread so cunningly held apart
     
             -expressing clearly or obscurely the idea of a lower position,
             the bleeding woman leaves and rejoins the production line; we talk-
     
     Fronted distraction
     particulars that litter
     her spector bound
     
     an opportune fury and a partial labour
     -kind of dawdling
     streatks of news made merry as if
     
     
                                             An sluttish else
                                             (weakened) ONE lit. to carry
     
     
     hand closed around an abstract sensation
     churns it self
     a pelt agog
     
     "I go to the grocery store and touch"
     states want
     
     a steep gist in nearness
     mouthing a nil bale
     
     
                                                     semple, sourde
     
     
     a floundering perfect cost
     -whereas I'd intended mass
     
                                                     A tiny newness, stooped
     and anyway they're eating it because it's dead past
     caring of the past
     
     He carries the amputated legs to be incinerated on foot
     -I had no idea it'd burn out this way
     
                     Glinting glasses for an event far from the head
                     overtaken plump in a grassy break
                     staining reflection
     
     noon brooded on our guest.
     her gag stuck in a box
     

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