5

Thought in images:
countless
early reels of silent
captionless pornography:
instructions for possession.
I own the image of your body
more convenient than a lover
compliant, attentive
quiet
"come, oddity"

Thought in an image:
People of Sarawak
hide their eyes from your comera
primitives! Pfbbt!
light in their soul
their soul in light
they may kill you for the camera,
ignorant censors
captured in a reel of documentary film

Thought in images:
8mm home movies:

swimming, Lac Nominingue
the swimmer no longer swimmer
like the water in the lake
became cloud, fish, river, sea,

scattered by thirty years of circulation