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Jennifer Entire (Free verse) by Goad

The woman has in eyes lost an entire history in that dark behind waves in our endless sun (Oh California) we have retreated under trees under cliffs under fronds scattering light that woman in vast dark eyes entire her skirted knees undusted but kissed lips always away looking oblique and strong with sideways fast looks that fill me in entire history is unneeded details that history of a one apart watching that one part missing that makes a one entire what makes a one attached she is close on the damp grass seated in low tones speaking her fingered palms spread open in shade explained dark dark hair and eyes a one entire- ly apart yet some finger reaches through the space between eyes and I know you I know you I know you... There is the largest wave breaking in the sun such a tantalizing curl of blue-green glass and foam the ocean has pounded into the shore a trillion times entire though they two have never become one.

Goad 19-Jan-04/6:11 AM
Thanks for the comments!

This was an experiment, trying to capture the way the real Jennifer actually talked -- flitting from idea to idea, sometimes with the connections missing. It is composed of fragments related by shared nouns & verbs. You can place punctuation and conjunctive phrases in many alternate places, and get different sentences. For example in line 12 the word details is noun or verb depending which phrase you're putting it in. I often do this once as the key line of a poem but here I'm doing it once or more on almost every line. But you're right, no one will ever give a fuck about this silly theory. Should see the response on Eratosphere, lol, they practically lynched me.




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