Lisa Lubasch


 

Ordering Things, 3

 

 

His voice occupies one place in the un-

differentiated field, a kind of zero

 

cries at night, as wind will          disfigure

 

the overall

            scheme.

 

 

**

 

  Her eyes move,

            their turning signals

 

   a fracturing

 

All the time,                  she was figuring out a system in another language

 

As the story judges her,                         it takes on an illusory

            quality

 

   This is also a part of the fantasy,                     it grows

 

It is like a spirit                         

 

In this filtering of necessity                         through the story, we are all

            the time moving                        

 

      At times, shadowing it.

 

 

**

 

These paths are regulative, as for instance,

            the spheres

 

rendering us                               positionless

           

soothed by the belief,

incendiary

 

Emptiness, of which we are also             a part.

 

 

**

 

Her gravity                  is part of the picture

 

            which

informs her,       as she loosens the frame

 

   She thinks            it becomes part

            of the account,

 

  the other version.

 

 

**

 

 What is mutable                       is

 

in the frame,                                          her thoughts are

sometimes merely echoes—

 

As through a screen (through which

            her thinking may pass and then dissolve),

 

                                    things

    are passing

from one state to another,

 

An ever-dissolving current

                                                            defines them—

 

 

**

 

Into what surrounds us

We go out with a belief

 

That we are separate from                     the error, which outlasts us,

 

as we are inclining

            toward it,

 

Fleeting words

            one measure

 

keeping us intact

while also dividing us.

  

 


Ordering Things, 1

Ordering Things, 2
 



 

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