The Coming of the Toads

A Notebook – Since 2007

Tag: antecedents

  • Its Opposite

    The ubiquitous it is at it
    wait for it or go for it
    again and again opposite its
    clarity its antecedent it’s in
    other words everywhere else
    but here we will hide it
    for good like its dark matter
    doppelganger antithesis
    it blankets, lids, sheaths
    and sheets while we sleep
    while we pretend to be
    privy to it its fugitive identity.

  • On the Whole of Things

    having cut it out [it, all its]
    pleasure now without article
    embellishment whole
    some questions

    consider blue hydrangea
    yesterday transplanted
    from pot to ground
    root, stem, leaf, bud

    in which will we find
    whole plantness
    cup without coffee
    gives us to mark time

    a day without hours
    hours without minutes
    minutes without seconds
    where will we find time

    for whole things
    words opening
    seeds, bulbs
    into whole language

    grown in pots
    root-bound can
    but describe
    like mathematics
    can not be