Sunday, December 4, 2011

Cross-Hatched Accents

" Cross-Hatched Accents "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube
as, " Clearly Over
a Tidy Churn "

Clearly over a tidy churn
with terse drumming
and plenty to work with
as layers of artifice
and cross-hatched accents
to match finding traction
in flickering contraptions
swelling with rain
rooted at center stage
On a woody peg, naked
in cross-section
with scented edges
silvery when fresh, dense
spirelike, attaining heights
widely triangular
pyramidal and lacy
with raised scars
bracketed and bent
backwards blackened
with age
Borne in pairs, cone bearing
silver haired
ovoid acorns, scaly
cups rough, pubescent shrub
rusty stubby, lustrous southern
curled under...

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