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Colette Inez USA
All poems appear in the book by the author, Horseplay:
THE LETTER BFORE
A
The letter-before-A carries an
absence
waiting to be born
out of radio waves and ghosts of
lost rhymes
unnameable as god in the void.
Carrying a presence dense with text,
the letter-after-Z, waits to be
born
into nothingness--phantom dispatch
of anonymous
names blown at the illiterate fair
attended by every invisible child
doing nothing
and the little brown fox jumping and
scrambling.
Aleph's ox horns, an "A" upside
down,
and zed on a sled to oblivion.
Read me twigs blown in the dirt,
veins
of porphyry, cranes in a line.
That alphabet of cracks on our lips,
and in dust
lightly written, signaling hunger.
Lean flesh of words unspoken wait to
unfold.
Meaning dances as we spin words,
mysterious, reciprocal,
linked in marked conglomerations,
the alphabet of ashes in the
absence-before-A
evolving to clouds
and the letter-after-Z buzzing with
hypothesis.
Appeared in
Barrow Street
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