Too many predicaments

inking the book

*

The table, yes

but more importantly

what is said

across it

Something more

to be brought there

than the table's architecture

*

MASTER OF THE PLAUSIBLE

Keep it where we're going

and maybe we'll find it there.

*

Isis and Aphrodite

femmes de menage

Invention and admonition

Careful what you say --

what are put en face

*

A little for the morning

a little past midday

a little for the evening

Even the subtlest ash is preserved

*

Other masteries and pastimes

[Augustine, De Civitate Dei, XVI, 4]

The wind a steady blast from the West

Low clouds and high bright blue sky

*

The liminal perfected in its final form

-- free of time

*

Dark inscriptions

whose origins are a matter for debate

*

Stranded

though full of attainment

A small, undecided portion

collecting under the nails

*

Shrugged up onto the shoulders

the record only provides for

detaining the protected propositions

in order to make their correctness

seem more providential

[1998]