Edge and Fold XLI-XLVIII
XLI
where is a written deer
running through a written forest
-Wisława Symborska
the written man in bed
with his unwritten wife
she who has written
his figure in that place
experience that lives
only in the written
a dark brown mouse
crossing to the mirror
vacant fishermen
staring into ponds
as if to write them
naked with indifference
what is fire writing
in the house of darkness
all inner space imagined
nothing in shadow
everything that is
written by what is not
—Paul Hoover
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from Edge and Fold (Apogee Press, 2006)