Tom Taylor

NOR SWART RECALL

fills what void there is and then moves on
into its self such as it is. that would move on
as well something large and new would suffice
into morning’s smoothness collides as well at
something new is new enough to talk about
in the morning of your own receptions were
made up as we went along not to be rescinded
or even lessened from what substance as is there
at all to be reminded how you are, how you are
one after another is the clue of the wilderness
in its variety and almost wooden quality of being
‘being what it is’ is more of a term than a purity
of expression

it was hence in the beauty of expression itself,
in the expression of beauty itself that the light shows
you might not even see for all its negligence
you’d find its absence in its containment, its being
there at all, you’d find it there, in its suddenness of
being, in its assertion and definition in statement,
that is, in having something to say at all, how you are,
we’re too smart for that, too smart at all