Thursday, April 1, 2010

Systems

I empty the shelf, set each can on the floor
squat in front of the now empty cupboard
and begin to replace them,
these in the back, tall with tall
queen, bishop, knight.
We eat these several times a week,
so, placed front and center. Pawn. If
I can find the system
everything will flow
differently, complicated Russian chess sequences,
move after move snapping into focus
like a hillside
the winter after a decimating wildfire,
the moment torrents of mud, potential unleashed
at the last, possible moment.

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