rhythm in a well set line
breathes of space in letterforms
creatively slow
character string caldera
confined into scaffolding
was calculated—
the forgetting I mean, like
stones thrown one by one
then stones unthrown one by one
letterforms in breaths of space
lines in well set rhythm
we built jungles in our minds
on runes and ruins
we constellated forms, letter-
-breaths, constant kaleodi-storms
the beginning moves.
send pawn to e4, thrown stone
the lesser unknown!
emended throne, edit four
stars and storms hath moved for more
and less; wink and fade
we let our breaths evade
our tongues; queen e5
spots a grub in a beehive
some walls of nine, ladder rungs
aspiring, desperate lung
slowing towards the thriving sun
a move, diagonal
to see a bishop blighted
and long-sought fate misled
the moon farsighted
watched our poems be (edited)
and sleep rustle by
(an evaporated sigh,
parenthetized Never Mind,
an en passant, rook!
(k)night, took, and tomorrow,
a checkered play-by)
dawn illuminates by ray
jungles kaleidoscopic
built along the way
to waking; checks and chess tick
the renga road
interweaving paths un-slowed
underlying, didn’t know
holographic jenga
(all of traffic ends the)
chess check congestion
in the swung boom, reel 'n soon
structures that we built to ride
because the monsoon's
coming bringin' a tension
that can't hide, won't slide
not from ◼︎ to shining ◼︎
monsoon wide, emphatic tide
enter erosion
them demotions— dem oceans?
elixir potion
cauldron motion, dipping the
same heroes same odysseys
same challenge islands
in the same seas but new sands
new volcanos stand
ampersand, so strand a standard;
standing sender's steady stance
sea-strained certainty
steeping cerulean sand
sans source, so serif slant
with Kathy Wu