The Continuity

THE CONTINUITY


The continuity is the coup d'tat, confessions,
Musical, clavichordal, claret-colored, minus
A correspondence, but coherent thus independent
Of any event, reverie, or foot bridge, discoveries
Without documentation from life experience,
But stylography
On Styx,

The authentic voice, the monk on a raw wood
High stool, copying calligraphically

A language he cannot read, the brain,
The monastery and monster, an obituary notice
And a birth cry, the sandstorm without sand,

A ivory skull topped with a wig.

A deep knowledge of mask and costumes, poses,
Jests, jubilation mistaken for people
Supplies the fiction for the confession,

Joss sticks burned in joss houses
On journal pages,

Our sight warped, distorted by tradition, popular
Opinion,
Puts us out of sight of what can be seen,
So we see
As blind puppets
Paupers, purposes, parrots,

Baseball pitchers.


Duane Locke

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