from Anamnesis

Suppose we write the sentence, “Paul had a very great mind”
Later we can return, strike through the word “mind” and write “brain”
Later we might add, before the word “had,” the words, “the owner of
  the restaurant”
We might add, “whose sign is the shape of a sleeping deer”
We could strike this sentence out entire
We could write, “Debt has become the watch word”
We’ll write, “Recommended for you”
But we can cross this out
Write, “My family has three members”
Strike through “has,” write, “is”
Strike through “members,” write, “both my mother and father, in the
  apartment right now”
Strike through “right now,” write, “in the mornings, noon, and in the
  evenings”
Strike “both” through
Write, “Lucy was saying that”
Strike the whole sentence

forthcoming in Quarterly West

Constellation

The body of water a particular
Time of day resembles        (candida)

Permanence, residence, desire
History, possession           (culture of)

That difference, disproportion
Was written in the stars

                              (form of an animal, unnamable
                              ages point to point, how

                              he rushed to
                              hunt me with

                              a bluff) 

Il trompe son monde

The man next to me appears

Like an angel enamored of

The apple, to be

In redness, as of love, mind-reading.

This provides an appropriate

Nervousness: one as yet not

Recorded in memory.

Those who sang even

As the sun traveled under
Water; the cool coats of doves

They hold in their minds.

The cold clothing of doves.

Why would a person wish
To be seated in a theater?

Or, is it only this person,
Doing wrong, in the dark,

Heals pressed gladly to the
Sticky floor, as, in the

Distance, a blue light
Comes up, reminiscent of

No time of day, but,
Where were we?

originally published in Fence