Ghosting

How to circle wagons

how to signify what looks like a nest

If thinking > feeling

does recognition exploit comic mode

or unfold as motion picture

In our comic strip we met for coffee

anxiety baked in time & place

In Beckett’s Film fingers trace the walls

& refuse to answer

Buster Keaton holes up shushing his pets

turning us one at a time

to face the wall before opening

the envelope of inner images

His action is subtraction

a wave that owns poets

whose feelings precede calculus

whose pictures double what is not I

Proofs of accumulate matter

Scourge of clouds after math

after terminal degree as if speaking to you

of the many ways to maintain scars

Just past the cluster of soothsayer signals

the trashcan curve rattling fastball

time to just intuit and swing

I now work for the outer agency

originally a translation

of what history thinks it teaches

lulled to sleep by a set of config commands

silent switches to suppress

blades thrust in chassis

Let’s just say another world is possible

network of disappearances

Spitting image of what

loved to be loved