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Ciphertext Rag: One

by Gregory Severance

stagger across the universe

                            stay home from work

                                         the worlds the people the consciousnesses

of hot water baths

                  
                  chairs arranged in rows

            chairs arranged in circle

                                                       chairs arranged in mandala


chin scratching

                                      interactive switching

           
                                                        low data volume

        stars and constellations                        detecting and recovering


              exhaustive staggering

                                                       exteriority of homelessness

hidden objects revealing the others

                       spiraling through the universe

     cotton towels hide hairy legs

                                                   sub-tropical images inverted


invaders of the flickering image                                   of the usurers

                                                             of tri-dimensionality


  silicon sand on the floor of the museum

                                                     arranged in mandala

arranged in circle

                      arranged in star                           eternal collision


          key lime pie

        sitting in folding chairs on the wooden porch

                                     of the southern haunted house

    of the capital city

                                                           of confusion and nausea

             digging bare feet into the splintering planks


         digging bare feet into the sand of the mandala


digging bare feet into 
the sand of Panama City beach


quiet June rain on Saturday

                                   afternoon in the clock towers squirrel

and pigeon scurry                                                nothing is hidden 

synthetically                     
     explicit insistence of mammon

                     alphabetically

June 1994



POETRY

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