more and more I am less and less
loss and increase, rushing the doors
each by the other’s entrance
a deluded equilibrium sprayed
through the stencil of things known to be
cash or credit, movement or dead still
path with mantra, a mass with a host
mastery of the enclosing nesting doll
in preverbal childhood, before a self
got on to it, on a blanket in the yard
you pointed and said “da” in wonder
it could have been anything
now I wonder why we can’t leave
wonder alone, and when we point and
open our mouths, out comes
a meaning, a stillborn concoction
landing with a thud
-:-

Myself, 1955, aged eight months.
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