kari edwards


Aftermath

nothing to say any more
expelled from injured paradise
incarcerated in plural driven substitution

nothing to imagine anymore
given another calmer euphemism
left blank for another order, weak absurdity

nothing to say seeking urgent home severing as body and limbs, further on drama and numbers, dead leaves and twigs the exercise book reads, permanently wrenched from a swarm of messages undone, replaced by a generous claw with nothing to say

in the low brown out a pattern appears, flat conformist appendage, weak link to limitation, a self-contained comical system, offering leveraged suicide, an aberration with intolerable delirium

it taunts with a succession of proofs and irresistible lies

whose house swarms with rats, coming from whose faces, whose words, only to offer momentarily pure a bitter end where nothing is true and all is false.


appropriation for an order zone

there is a shipwreck on each side of innuendo, tears gather around the collective shadow of shadows; none clearer than the last unshakable, never noticed, next time please sir, more.

enshrouded by fear, one hundred years after eleven pages of violent reality testing, when the beginning was the final question, outside the disruption of anything hungry on emptiness, suggesting a response of objections, calling on me to speak in tongues.

trying to read the consequential future, apply anything to anything; knowing any application to the current materiality is wretched normality and remote productivity.

yet, after loitering in morning’s death, in the mirror glistening fragrant outside, amongst mangled bodies and scattered twisted ties, unhealed from unheard names, I am called back, repulsed, confronted, tormented, lying in sleeping hands ready to snap.

hives fold into ghettos, the amber sun disappears where every act is
spoken of in purely stylistic displacements reflecting perfect

appropriation for whatever order zone the case may be,
we settle in where the shipwreck isn't noticed
adhering to silent rules in time


did I not say

did I not say to you
did I not say
they will implant ugly qualities
did I not say
saying something
eager to die into the deathless
did I not say
have you heard
the silent steps
innermost names weeping
did I not say
in the pangs of separation
worldling light
running through our veins
saying I must leave
the earth in a mind without fear
did I not say
raised an acrobat
on the clumsy ground
in the dirt
on an organ
while the puppets
danced above
did I not say like a wedge
in a block yea, a thing
did I not say
life can get tired of living
living another insisting babylon
did I not say
despite the body
there is a universe
despite the universe
born waves of existence
did I not say
saying I must go
did I not say
death does not annihilate
it only breaks up conjunctions
did I not say
gone ready to depart
here talking of changing
only to history


end process

who will finally complete themselves
to not exist
to see the unseen of the unsaid
in the book of nothingness
that began before birth

who will everything everyone
happening in urine and blood

whose content is not reiterable

who will be the first to quit talking
in intimate unfolding

who can contain enough
without augmenting brick and mortar
who without supplement of names and numbers

who under terror of gasoline
will meet the leopard and attack the trainer

who will only desire
fusion
with the rains,
demand a moment
of your time

who will
awash within a stream
of distractions
spill without reference
onto text of tradition
mixing with subtropical blue mist
and the vacuum of space
happening with corporal clarity
carnivorous and wet
steeped in powdered thought
through everything without sunrise


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