Autopoiesis XCII (“If there’s a footnote to absence …”)

If there’s a footnote to absence it’s the

bric-a-brac, the body’s exhaustive (do

I mean exhausting) (tho I could mean ex-

haustive) task of flesh. Sometimes you just have

to count the grapes and the plums while garlands

of goldfish nibble bits. O Simplici-

ty the Exemplar, O odd intransi-

gent openness, the sky is a swimming

pool and the signs and the stars and the hy-

phens and the irreconcilable ver-

naculars and the tens and the 10s give

us back the world as if oh the pure hi-

larious ache of ontology is psyche-

delic horse sense while wind sits on a bench.

[Note: Sources: blurbs in the Spring 2008 Small Press Distribution catalog, taken pretty much A-Z. A new project-within-project? Kristin Abraham, A Useless Window; Robert Allen, The Encantadas; Aaron Anstett, Each Place the Body’s; Tim Atkins, Horace; Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot; Jasper Bernes, Starsdown; Sherri Benning, Thin Moon Psalm; Catherine Bowman, Notarikon; Alex Boyd, Making Bones; Anne Carson, Short Talks; Matt Cook, The Unreasonable Slug; Jack Collom, In the Wind]