Unsequenced Poem
The shape of your surface
is skin and clotted ink.
Caller of bones,
Declaimer of genealogies,
Architect of sutures
to dam the insidious blood
galloping from mouth and eyes;
your speech is an act,
but you named me my name for nothing.
I've displayed it on poems, on possesions,
superscribed it
on long nude arches of women,
set it, paranthetically,
between fingers of stone.
Altar-place, dwelling-place
meat and sleep of the fires,
the atonal hush of
the sacrifice; the melody
and clamor of the pyre;
all these in identity,
old knower, covered in maps.
Nomenclature of the senseless,
orator of the sense,
your voice overwhelms you,
overflows you.
I am your erasure;
I am the signifier, decaying
into the signified.
You've broken the pieces to fit you,
you've broken your eyes to fit,
big eyes with sensuous tears.
Your taxonomies, your tongues
only say the quiet,
only photograph the night.
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