David Dowker
HERACLITEAN FIRE
for Susan Howe
we who once were
would word wide webs
In a metaphysical Universe playing with
fires
Bark be my raiment sparksewn through
Never into the same flames
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age of reason and us all spasming
a seizure or revelation
categorically
steps out of character falters
falls
into caricature Kali
-graphic display
of most removed cool
cloistered violence waving tables War
wages in faces and famine
manoeuvres between occlusion
between
any two untenable positions which
antidote weighed (at stake wanting)
becomings and so
holes to blow through bearings
only roentgens rising
rads
and rems odds of further feminine future
war rages with
images
forgeries of orders
(of verbs) by the truckload
hordes or herds of words thunder
across the plain
plainly illegible