REQUIEM

for Alice Lamoureux (1919-2004)



The stuff     plastic of

     flesh     not different

compounds    begin

          to realign or return

     some rearrangement of

          moments,     ascention 

     of release said moment,

     latent, universal

archive, lazy binary

     flutter, shifting

skies a glass cover

     a wilting flower

a spherical network 

     of frail seeds::     thermoclines,

pray for an archive

     tender, shepherd

(foiled) hubris, waiting,     wading

     no different moment no

one to hear     no archives

     why no sky (arms)

why (no) archive why

     no memory              (no)

scrying, looking

compounds shift, cells

crystalize  the moment

     wilts

     no glass flowers no

     archive

(laid) down in winter,

     laid bare, how many

living hearts & archive hearts

in this room?

    You (her) ghost beside

me walks we use

    this 3rd person

    never did

    notice anything else

never    never listened or noticed

nothing,     the ghosts murmur

     into giant space

     I am that giant

space, in me, in or thru

     fire, gimme some empty

largesse, cold motion



brittle spherical

     seed pincushion

needle pinions

     breaching earth, new

growth

     grasps tenaciously

into staid

     earth

          into salient gravel

     stammering

addenda, (life)

     focused 

     (nevermore)

     everyday



this moment is (the same)

     that one there

(now) you (I) grand

    mother are the ghost &

the sphere, the glass

     flower melting

     into                     sands

         

                                (mandala).