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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