2013/12/14

The Big Melt: Anything Gone Is Replaced





No, I don't want to explain why Karkowski works on me - to me much less you - since someone asked. Maybe I'll elaborate more someday, if only to me, but I'm happy enough putting on the headphones and being melted by the music and not worrying why it works after I reemerge. Lordy, it works.












ADVANCES

Keith Waldrop

seventy wingbeats
per second
 
vagaries of vegetation, rosy
anticipation I
turn the page without
reading
 
essence of
accident
 
what is the strongest
motive what
drives the solar wind
 
time’s not so
old, dating only
from the creation
 
New England has
cooled significantly, icy
core with a sooty coating
 
this ice
hard to break—the brain
will have to wait
 
catharsis of the
vulture, obligatory
vespers
 
a bat, painted the
color of joy, head
downward because
 
the brain is
heavy I put on
music but don’t always
listen
 
whether magma could
rise to where tones reach
audible frequencies
 
modest success with a late
parasitic moth we will soon
 
find out if all this
is true
 
sudden drain on the
heart, more
doubt, the big
 
melt: anything
gone is
replaced