Melissa Wolsak

from The Garcia Family Co-Mercy



     Compassion
     
         is largely         exile
     
                               ..contradict
     
            the ways in which
     
                      the world
     
                          says no
     
     
     
                         ..lull Puma
     
     
     
        whose tortured speech,     imagines
     
              as if
     
                    veracity
     
                      after veracity 
     
     
     
     
     
     scatter it   within the shape
                      scorched whitewomen
     
     
     
     *
     
     
     
     skybox       seems hissy     gallowed
     
                  seems prowler    sapped
     
     
                    serpolet
     
                            /indolent
     
     
                    incandescent
     
                         /chess shops
     
     
     
     
     misprison         flout      spirant,
     
                                  interludio,
     
                                  spissus
     
     fob,      for chain
     
                   a shadow,        and a garment
     
                      the wind that did not
     
                          take it
     
     
     
     *
     
            ..      Lucretius    in
     
                    his  four  directions
     
                      inspeximus
     
             we have inspected ..
      
            the muscle in my trunk
     
                    fans   and grapes
     
          iss   isthmuses      isthmi
     
                         suavitas
     
     
     
               ex egg
     
       to jacket  confect   ivied 
     
                     vigoroso 
     
                  be - do - of us, 
     
                the presence of oxen
     
                     at the table ..
     
     
     
     
     ..        describes his life as
     
                                  ismatic
     
                                  tumid,
     
      a nuclear hindrance         dart   render
     
             masterbari              rockface
     
       wound your hands               with his feet
     
     
     
     *
     
     
     ..         he seemed to rest
     
                     without seeming
     
       to be there ..
     
     by the heavy spondees
     
             his footsteps
     
             opened a zone
     
       who is wanted?
     
             acacia   for boats 
     
             sycamore    for mummy cases 
     
             desire and the invisible 
     
             mauve  line 
     
             mobile  secretum
     
                  lava   rills,
     
                  a diving girl ..
     
     bathe   and move on
     
     
     
     
                  sound palette
     
                jugglery     tempi
     
                   squint   voiceforce
     
                     comparsa
     
     
     
     
     
          tisane   psywar     tiding
     
                   gerund or waveguide
     
            FEND   numinosum
     
            FEND   facinosum
     
                         gauzy
     
          denigration
     
             unfurl   other christs
     
                  propolis
     
     
     *
     
     
     
     ..         distill light    as we do 
     
                  silence as     unsound 
     
                      mho   membra
     
                   so-so  flivver
     
                       ouija
     
                       zylem
     
                       cattarrh
     
                    thrips    alter by it
     
               one can advance
     
                      across a shallow
     
             compete   with their own deer
     
     
     *
     
     
     
     
     ..     pan-osmosive  lizards of light
     
        coffee and  Sen-Sen
     
                   slypa     lubric 
     
         fates of slang
     
               goad ..   the hut 
     
         having very early been
     
                     a palisaded place 
     
         fence of pales    percussus 
     
         peal,     ponder     dura mater
     
             great suicides of  ancient Rome
     
                 use  and reuse
     
                           of silence
     
             make these limits  appear
     
     
     *
     
     
     
     ..      there was no mihrab     or other
     
               streamside        masonry
     
                  .. linking bridges
     
                       link less ..
     
                          disquiet
     
                   wound around      without
     
                               reaching
     
     
     
         was   at first used     in pity 
     
          by running     they retracted 
     
                figura
     
                     endura
     
                  mother-tongued .
     
          as many  shh shackbolt
     
       in a gummed     respiratory way
     
               all   rosehair
     
         this  hissing rake . 
     
                 to them
     
          itinerant child-mother,
     
                    harvester and outsider
     
     
     *
     
     
     
     ..       again  when summer dusts allow
     
                monarchs    journey back
     
                               copia
     
                               raw calm
     
     
     *
     
     
     
                            pouch it!
     
                   as never     simplicissimus
     
                              he sang for
     
                       scholars and beauties
     
                         sorrowless
     
                             groaneth
     
                          law     of milieu
     
     
     
     
      and I you     caught     rose     were brought
     
          rise do     borne    was     same saw
     
     under its           self       made
     
         stir  after     where      told       she was
     
          of that     all           now too
     
     all now               too       in or      these
     
          by          dint      is put
     
             which    can         make
     
        from        the        twice     to
     
     find     avoid  some        facetious  falco
     
         but        us     inhabit / submit
     
                                 dislimb
     
     
     
     
     "toward my grave I have travelled but two hours"
     
     
     
     ..             did I not know   slump glass 
     
                      vatic / dipped sound ..
     
                    scattering shandy
     
                     leaves and domes or
     
                           deep to this
     
                             fingered lake
     

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