Friday, May 12, 2006

Poem: Truth as a walk

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What made the numbers had no number,
maker of place, the one

who lifted water like a box
and slid it under land or up in sky

then poised to fall in scintillations,
the scintillating sheets torn by the trees,

this one, the one who placed, could not be placed,
but lay and deeply lay within the waste,

a presence? could you call God that?
an absence? that was just a word

that poets used, but true words had to be
walked into, truth was more a kind of walk

that you had to *do* even to
know what you were trying to *do*.

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