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The beginning, the Word --

"just send me that boy with the motorcycle," & her laugh

Wind drives the white rain sideways across the porch steps

She hesitates to mention it

Better the codex the golden tablet the semiotics of transcendence even the red wheelbarrow

& so the rain

 

Before the cleaving (one part antic loud driven; one part dumb)

and the cleaving (self to the bosom of self, O la!)

her smudging of narrative

that little death

those tears

 

by Joe Ahearn