7.
Bright lamps only manage this despair.
BrigTherefore turn
Brigoff the light!
Look into the dark news.

Its Place-markers are shadow traces.
Its Medicant Envoys
presenting themselves and their credentials
get ploughed like letters into the palimpsest.

I knew what I wanted. It was darkness
Brigendlessly overwritten
Brig(dark-news, I listen);
I wanted a “swirling mutedness,” although in words.

8
registers no telling what.
BrigMotif of shadow,
BrigBrigMotif of whisper,
Hard to point to.
BrigThe Wedge-shaped Ricochet
BrigBrigover the swathe.
The the and
-the.

Record these
without
tampering with

this.

9.
found paper & thread
piths and plis
a pile of folded quires
hid in the abandoned pavilion of verses,

found paper & thread
undid the book
low hum and rustle, voiceless
out of the fallen leaves of text.

Re-bound the folds with sweet reeds and whiplash

tied polylingual billets, doux ding-a-ling,

And punched andare-ritornare

tickets, there and back,

one for entering the book

one for escaping the book.

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