skinvisible
facing each other
one truth apart — Kevin Gillam
i this
thing
itchy with text
Your voice is an underground stream
hiding small eyeless creatures
Touching you is breaking something
again we
pass
masked
in black
filmed
skinvisible
the huge unsaid
suspended
wired
again we
pass
filmed
in black
framed
in bits
skinvisible
maintain our com-
position
particles ex-
changed only
in theory
functions col-
lapsed only
in thought
Your voice is an underground stream
Touching you is
i this thing itchy
with text
breaking something
Turnings
Return is how the Way moves. — Lao Tzu
not enough windows — electric light at noon
electric light at noon — not enough windows
a wood stove just like
my mother’s — rusting away
rusting away — my mother’s
like just a wood stove
a garden screen, weathered planks
hung on firm posts — my yoga wall
my yoga wall — hung on firm posts,
weathered planks screen a garden
a chime made
of tuned aluminium tubes
suspended by little strings
in what seems to be silence
silence in what seems to be
suspended by little strings
of tuned aluminium tubes
made a chime
References
Lao-Tzu and Le Guin, U K 1997 Lao Tzu: Tao te ching, Boston: Shambhala
Le Guin, U K 2012 Finding my elegy: new and selected poems 1960-2010, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt