LIES/ISLE  

  from THE FACE COMES FORWARD  
AFTER MEDITATION (32)


Janus answers in a growing loam.

Mitotic, exuberant.

The face comes forward.

The face comes forward.


Then the little bird on the branch

A self out there in the gray

And supporting sky.


The mirror tucks its love in two,

The two devours the light.

Fictive, anabsorptive. Moving

Through the rooms.



AFTER MEDITATION (33)


No fear of face.
The ladder develops, emanates, releases
Erasures.

This way, this way.

Barkers in the night.

Grasslands, mirrors,

Simpatico.



AFTER MEDITATION (34)


The diamond sutra
sits
on a leaf's
ledge



AFTER MEDITATION (35)


Figures in a future descended
By a breath,

Recalcitrant, mirror-leering.

The halls go one and
One,

Into Remember, taxes, facts

Of instances where no self

Waits for an explanation

Of where it was it was to be.

AFTER MEDITATION (36)


The tongue and the tongue and the tongue
     and the tongue.

Comatose lowering,

Fragile, implacable:

The rest of the empty dots, the
     figments, the oblivious

answers.

Here in the cradle of the maze,

Where the thumping comes, the men

In briar, in fortunate misunder

Standing ...

Hurrying over the Sun and above

the slits,

the triangular

fits,

inside the damp advance

of blundering.



AFTER MEDITATION (37)


The sex of the sideways reflection,

Sought after, indivisible,

Porous.

Inside the head of the palm,

The fictive adjustments daily,

By the minutes,

You appearing as you-other,

You-plural.

A face to manage.

A discussion to quarter,

To migrate.

Cancellations of the

spectral




  JAMES WAGNER