Refiguring Time and Space
Submitted by Andy Gay on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 12:49
Monday, January 3, 2011
Watch out, Sir,
for you are inquiring after a star not your own.
It cannot show you a new commodity
to enhance your portfolio,
nor bless the call giving the order
that would create value from victims.
It was once thought stars were like coal-burning furnaces
until they figured there could not be enough mines
to stoke such radiance:
their reach is off the grid.
Why must we pretend to know what things are
as though revelation could only be verified by knowing it ahead of time?
It is the politics of text control,
the strategy of God-containment
Self preservation. . . .
contradictions -
like this latest march of storms, the second in a week,
tripping sirens wailing
until the scudding clouds that hale the lifted warnings