blog of poet, leah umansky

Reconsidering the Experiment

I am taking a lucky break from the tenants; the builders; the chutes and ladders of it all. I’m in the penultimate hour; it is unusually slow. I will spare the feet; I might mis-translate a word or two,          but no verse is truly protected                                                                    [is it?] 

                                                let someone else do that for you…    

No more.        

 Lay it all                     here: _____________

This is how we learn things – through absence; through reconnaissance; through piecing the parts into a:            whole.

                                                [you remember fractions, right?]

The time is:  never.                             The place:  never.                                             ::never::

Your readability is:      off.   Reductive; representative; I am being deliberate. I like to gaze.  I am doing the doing and you are     unbothered.                I don’t mean to intoxicate.   

                                    Here’s a little honesty: I know how lucky I am.

                                    Here’s more:  I like this soldiering.   

There needn’t be categories; dismiss these compliments. Scour the wound at the             center.

© Umansky 2011