Variations On Line

Variations On Line

Variations On Line

Continuities lie in wait, long after
you’ve closed the book.
To undergo once more but for the
                                    last time
             these sunless calligraphies –
                       shop-window symbology
& the whole world blowing up
to be made NEW!
                                 Passing a strange girl
                                 on “the street”
you give money to for
charity –
& I, also, have loved Rusalka.
                  Quoting sharmanic jazz
         as raison d’être.
                             Blood on Žižkov
                             hotel bed
                             framed à la
                             Nat Finkelstein.
Counting the streetlights, their
attention factors & habits
                    so much depends upon.
                      (The lull before any silence.)
Saying there is
a certain
time
when you can
only be
on the side
of chaos.