Occurrences across the Chromatic Scale by Reginald Shepherd
How life for me would be terribly easily and bearable every day, if I live next door to my dearest friends.
Occurrences across the Chromatic Scale
Reginald ShepherdThe way air is at the same time
intimate and out of reach(a void with light inside it
turned on a wheel of wheres)Stars’ lease on sky expires, breathes
in leisures of sparrows, wrensand casual trees, wet sidewalks
twittering with tattered news, oldleaves (hollow bones and branches)
wind of wish and which and boyswaiting for white kisses, rain
of feathers, clouds saving their laterSuppose this sunlight, day split open
suppose these senses and the informationcarried, thing and news of the thing
repeating place, location of positionBirds, for example, remembered
fluttering torn terms, congregationsshimmer of hummingbirds
but when does one see more than onetumbling bright flesh (sky
at hand) pleating afternoon, bankingon mere atmosphere, primary
colors dividing white intothree clean halves (red, green,
blue-bitter berries rasp, crabapplescrush underfoot), the spectrum
says don’t stop there(smudged light a lapse of attention)
there’s never enough world for you
Virginia Mangrum
Good God. I would daresay my mind was blown. Very beautiful.