in the dark the twinned forms
at hand level
to the grasp
feel
vexed by a polished mineral
smoothness
dachshund heads
made long light bulbs
the snout or screwed end
for the handles
but the snouts can be lifted
independently (cant)
and the bulbs portend
some cantilevered waiting
as if an andiron (pretend)
and a byzantine slipper lamp
were condensed
in an oily silence
where a perfect pipe descends
from the base of the dog's bulb
to join a reservoir
in the shape of a winged sausage
whose back opens
by means of a lid (wind)
and inside
amid the beads and the slurry
are microphones
and serpents
which pass through oily rings
covered with long stiff bristles
that index the beads in vertical rows
so that the words can be read (forage)
x a s
e l l
n b u
o u r
u n p
s e e
l m n
e o t
n n h
t t i
i l k
p u u
u d o
s e s
u n
n s
o c
u a
p r
u a
n t
c a
i
t
i
l
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e
and the oil can be drained
through a spount like a fluted tail
but the interior of the dark
is even more complex
the animal which grasps
the oil bead singing snake lamp dog
is itself a handle
a hold for garbled grasp
which in its dim logic masks
the whole as a subtle diatribe
against the part
the part as whole which knows
the hole in the nose
may not be used as a handle
leveraging cant
unites the difficult
with the simple
in a bright right wave room
sometimes the hopeless
critical smile is a crisis
the pleasure may be even
more diverse
than can be spoken
by the weal
of forlorn form
echo'd by the dumb
and byzantine rings
which say
wend your way
next thrown asway
to the virliosan hoop
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