D. VIII

DEFINITIONS VIII

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A bird there: no bird; who knows what the eyes are about, only summaries remain but the thought is instructional, so why would god want to stick around, how could she know everything without shifting the referent? Could you be a bird only once without undoing it? Can you love me with the sky? What would you need to know?

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To saturate in all that blue, and the birds still out: a sun of nowhere in particular, your heart, was it in your legs, your hands; will you keep meaning what you never explain?

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The simplest observance is enough: that the clouds shimmy against the sky; that the sky isn’t there, and someone’s walking slowly up the street.