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of ancient trees
of bloods of
of … to happen in
stretch out
the word for thing
for what means … thing
of eaters
bending
breathing you … of you
of older lungs
of you of tell
of what … re tells
the wild
of wind
a younger … tongue
of eating wind
inside
the wild … the wildest of
the eater’s so
the lowest light
the centered … o
the eater’s ode
of you by you
of thing … re tooled
of word by of
re read of page
by of … re ring
re you
of tell
of what means … tell
• • • I
maybe it’s time to convey thought into action
what mind does — to the layered real
to blend in with
to find familiarity — by blending in with
to blend into layer
removal of the — what the does
to unknown shaping
— the — unknown shaping
of every new listen
to record — in earthbound readings
emblems that point
towards — earthbound readings
that bring into here
what mind does — to into — as a way to understand
what interrupts
• • • II
trans-poetic immersion — structures
that evolve
out of needs — to survive
— what do you need to survive —
take new out of need
what day’s equilibrium
does to new
— the new —
that operate underskin
when mind is inserted
— the here
that want to be heard
minutae into new — emanating
from underknown
— all that ‘n’ emanating as nnnn — into new
how nnnn
starts as knoooownnn
and who ownnnns
without all that — nnnn
getting in the way
— nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
th’way
of balanced imperfection —
— where of operates
• • • III
for the known to become its dictate
listen to the unknown
— become —
to dissect line — out of imbalance
what unknown
towards want of not here do you own
— do you want —
not here
more than i — or is it
— other way ’round —
dear known
use of — as immersive zygote
dear of — what repeating gesture
of want
brings mind to not
if not here is the goal
— when here is so comfortable —
is uncomfort the goal
• • • IV
use of — as immersive be-goal
the opposite of familiarity
begets instinct
be-comfort in the reach of be-new
the new goal — the being
of goal
— to blend into the unknown instinct —
to blend
in operation of instinct
to understand — what mind does
as climax of indifference
— how to parse information
for something — anything
connected to change
would that — could that
— be
morning of a thought-in-progress — or
process of a morning-in-thought
• • • V
— transmission — comes to mind
what is mind
but blend — i.e. core
i.e. new —
to the core existence
the adding of the
as a way of being
the action you accept
— i.e. the finding of familiarity
to face what is bound to present
— i.e. what is new
— i.e. growth
what mind does — to i.e. growth
what is i.e. growth
but blend
what is — understanding
of growth
but — life made new by blend —
the underskinned observation
that won’t let go
— before you do
between the membranes — my fissured speech
pattern dojo
they say the challenge is in the uneasy
to rest in the known — is comfort
to rest is death
° ° °
how dramatic — to stir the melt of distant pores
to edge out what for some — is reason
for others shore
to art as nature intended — note
verb out of subject — to art a lost night of life
is life
° ° °
muffled through these walls — an answer
geysered — as empathy
how time zones
riff notes — out of something
you barely hear
my gone between
° ° °
rounding my papers
spiral effigy — chimes out that
lost chords
through a street of windows
will save you — wounding a moon
is a lost art
° ° °
to flay skin — using tongue — easy as rain
ohm de-settler — my human soul
asking
another same question — framed
indifferently — so as to appear
discovered
Edwin Torres is a NYC native and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). His books of poetry include Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books) which received a 2022 American Book Award, Xoeteox: the collected word object (Wave Books) and Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press). Anthologies include New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives, The Difference Is Spreading: 50 Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems, Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, and Aloud: Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Café.
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