WRITING, an excerpt, by RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS

WRITING, an excerpt, by RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS

. Plum grainy

veins, unfathomable

noises, moues and wrinkle

winkle

Plumb line, pul-

sing, eye to eye, drinks

dusks of light.

One year after, like a punctuation; one month together, as if

these times had meaning, particular meaning, instead of an

arbitrary path cut through possibly a mistaken hole in the

floor, they thought the radiator was smaller, and there it

is, an unfilled circle ninety years old.

full moon, and hardness

My mother I will, she said.

•

. word. Blue

(pants, trousers, cover-

alls) Blue, all

)"There is Mr. Ashley, narrating

tempered drop

his 'songs' or 'stories' in a

into

gentle, sing-song chant--what

the morning bizniz sweet

he terms 'vocal inflections

whistles, their hustle low

that you might call singing.' "

the-y fl-y one (tows) three.

Stroke in the air, wobble

a tune, wow.

Two red tickets set at an angle--

•

Imbedding some

extruding some

the interplay between selection,

imbedding, and loss. Some few words, chosen, and why; but are

also chosen from, once the day was awash in pinpricks, a pull in

the back muscle, overlay and no experience. No experience because

all.

Say.

Saw

.Operations. Addictions. And no

shadow and it was

dark within this icy

one knows

brightness all disappearing

all intense

writing

what;

does it save it? "diaristic" in

impulse, but unbargained, imponderable. Over written. Written

then over written, over ridden, the selection is one thing, this

(the globule, clot) another. Different plans and different pictures.

uneven picture patterns,

Most poetry something--

irregular blocks, a rebus

imagery, structure.

trued, held in a rose-pink

border.

Dreaming I'm crying

it's she's crying.

. Snaggles, spiggles, stalks

peck out snow.

Fresh, purple, haiku,

heuristic.

birds

. cumulus color of red sandstone, coal shale

resume

they

and close tabulated bunching

resume

re they

unfirm unpleasant undulant

re who

tcho

unconscious

tcho

pattern up

crests, its opposite

pitter pity

hole in the

touching hard and fast

they poke a

house

disperse

little nest

thick places

bound to violent narratives.

Marginalia without a center? No beginning, No. No

. One word one

ending? No, because form

"word" kkhkkhgggh

at all times is instilled. 0 noble

Koré la la

that ongo--

threaded into the dyad

ingness that entrance into speaking

both ends beading, gleaming

gargle. Conventionally, "goo gah."

encapsulated

eyes burning

Big finger to the little sleeping mouth

It was all cracking

makes sure,

the even silence breathing.

Narrative: the oedipal plot? ends by revealing the hidden

father. Pre-oedipal plot? the mother, hidden. Split subject:

"a living contradiction." A text to speak now, writing,

writing the sung-half song.

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