Le Nombre Des Ombres
By Andrew Joron
The faster I travel
the slower the world dies
Inside the head of a flower
The sun’s
a swinging pendulum
—all Radiance is progress
Of a pre-existent stillness
Stone, inspired
To fluency
curves thought
toward the drinking of Its shadow
grail: grille: grid
The lines recursive to impalement
one point alone
sings cumulative, crowding negativity
My apparitions
distorted by star-tides
Fail to approximate zero
Where sensation’s tip
Crumbles to ash
Another
Radio-profile turns, edged with dark cries
objects unfounded
of medieval prophecy
The heavens too grow cold
Andrew Joron, "Le Nombre Des Ombres" from Trance Archive, City Lights Spotlight No. 3. Copyright © 2010 by Andrew Joron. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.
Source:
Trance Archive
(City Lights Books, 2010)
