Andrew Joron

TO BE EXPLAINED

A basic code's deliberate error. 
Five gyrating holes, inborn.

A motherless sun at night — 
Overheard behind the wall of sound.

The rude red road that 
Leads backward into the body.

A fiery animal that lives inside the eye. 
Magnetism ebbing from the hands.

The coming war's ghosts 
Already preserved in black & white.

The orrery of ideas. 
The ossuary of things.

The phoneme shared by ash & erasure. 
The compass that points toward an unfinished world.

Astronomy, music, dialectics. 
Arrayed negations, the intervals between appearances.

Always toylike in the telling — 
The angles kneeling in mute witness.

A myriad displacements 
Not to be explained.

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