The crickets come forward
night being sound
in two permissions self said when
bodies in secret are made of words
thought to be “atoms” because we can’t read them
this the experience bears out
nothing less real for it
hence the pulsing in their midstwhen we are
in the midst of themstill unknown
The permissions lie further back
“It’s an octopus. Those are the arms. I wrote
my name. And I make fish all around the octopus.”
Further back.
“a series of circumlocutions”
Yes Eros/being/method
She has her own hockey skates
there in the garden
Oh overwrite nothing just as a trembling
named what was happening—tree doing
that in the actual
eye-of-things
once in a Greek poem
appears in another
also in Dante, andante, remember
the row-covers, gauzy, are perfect for tying
from tree to tree, transforming
farm to midsummer
night’s dream—Theater of Orchard
upcoming next summer
Now crickets are under
the day time sounds
I slept til 15
minutes to 1
then walked on gravel to help wake up
thru the soles of my feet
Also the bean plants’
blossoms are red, twined up the cedar posts
so hummingbirds see them
so they can drink them
In to the blossom
Thel returned screaming—a Blake thing
Experience, story of—
“Three-dimensional affairs, they occupy space in ways that reorient the body
toward typically overlooked physical contours . . . of a given environment.”
—“The Line in Space,” Helen Molesworth on Cecilia
Vicuña’s weavings
I stole the mackerel
from Whole Foods, felt it laughing
in my backpack all day
Things in the center, acting
Wildfire wildflowers out
The deep sleep yields
rest for the misshapen eye
Now think.
“The page was folded into a proper dart.”
A certain number of out-of-body experiences are likely not to be perceived–
have you noticed this in your travels?
One Sun Jewel today was very good, eaten in the Juliets & Juane Flamme
Quickly a tightrope was fixed between
a birch forest and the castle
altering memory
vexing the matter
~
she comes to count the horses
in the wild mustard
he tumbles down the iris
mountain
other eye seeing they
ought to alight
quintillions of arrows under the eyelids
must first be removed from the quiver
if it were woven
the spider is tipsy
how are you sleeping
like a radish in the cooling nights
the dirt is breathing all the time too
biography
LISA FISHMAN is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Current (Parlor Press, 2011) and F L O W E R C A R T (Ahsahta, 2011). She has new work in recent issues of Volt, Make, jubilat and elsewhere.