Drew Gardner

from THE MEDITATIONS

ligare, a ceramic bowl, itself and what it holds
this harsh of earth we move along in proportion
to its difficulty, resistance either is
or has to make, a staying mark away
who we love, to dismember its one flowing
by which a name is fault because
we wilt and what is that, to experience
a purity, flowers, what shelter differences
a difference of mystery persists
or do we protect it into syzygy?
a bee hovers at the edge of the house

consequence of meaning, not of image
or power, mora, pulsation in the gamut of
attenuations, law does not hold it
total uncertainty, which, within its lake
is as impossible as measurement is, changes
over as opposition does to antithesis, a view
within a pause, to put her husband back together

intellect is included in intuition, intuition
in experience, but confused
with the sustaining of lies, a selective misunderstanding
of decay and of the singular, I had better
start building my house in my head, clarity
technologies, but what are its consequences?

the vanished contrary judgments, the sun
can be blocked by a building or the moon,
or by a person, but not its permutations
except by the earth in its duration, greater
in the loss of color in this drying leaf
fragments of a spectrum thrown farther
and farther into the house
 

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