Steve McCaffery
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04/28/2026 14:58h
After the gossip one returns to grammar.
Almost to say that speech
compares us
renting that as a fact the case stands firm
for what we own.
Pragma
by relations instance this as
the index of my slab. Your
slap at it.
The clouds pastiche aubade
Sid’s bakery delivers symmetry
inside an adult formula for
Saturdays. Our poppies
in history.
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04/28/2026 14:58h
two divisions.
one)
knowing. nothing. into. understand.
two)
something.
touched.
someone.
1) sequences outside of the categories
labelled ‘telephones’
e.g. the milk arrived.
2) the things all found a personal
vocabulary. every word insulted
everyone
without looking.
1) knowing nothing into understand. and
this almost said solemnly was the one
that least occurred to me.
ii) i sent my heart in the upper pocked
or perhaps we made the bed in two
seconds after we eliminated the
third floor.
and nothing else to risk but
to hear her drinking. 1)
something solemn touched something in the
upper pocket.
2)
knowing something touched nothing without
drinking. 1)
(i love onions 2)
i told her so one.
in one second 2.
in two seconds flat
the things that change conceal
a system of ideas
for instance the trains went by to come
back on a roll of film
they were both standing in the courtyard
when i came she was
2) sitting on the steps in a mans
handwriting shutting my eyes to what
remains to be said.
1) an immense silence which had nothing to
do with silence.
2) for a long spell
a spell of weeping begins to come.
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04/28/2026 14:58h
But it is not our wish to reproduce
ourselves through you
the reader,
nor to reassure you that these words are true
or where the line breaks there is a meaning
stabilized by that news
speech is assuring you
our plans are still the same
as when we met original in formal theory
by the fridge on the streetcar
beneath some baggage of your satisfactions.
Over this our patience supports you
beneath the topical tuck
which is basic
to a sand ruse for writing through
these intervals between
our disagreeable achievements
signed in the triplicate stage of the plainer style
moved on
(not much of it) to where
the shade from the ilex soaks
the officer in charge
by the octagon
in august
more or less.
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04/28/2026 14:58h
A bridge is a passage between two banks. On Saturdays both banks are closed. A well is located in a wall of sound. But space is not the stake and suddenly both travellers fall in. Now draw a line between some water and their eyes. Express it as the border of a reservoir. The term ears stands ready to attack. Attach it then repeat the phrase my body lives inside a closed shed. The nose with this noise invents a scale. The cottage is attempts and tries to break at random or at noon a forest hidden by a single tree. Narrative dilates sporadic or clairvoyant in a place where bed becomes the meaning of the rest. Now say embrace me. Motors trivialize. Eighty-six windows show the noun to be a house. The heart is now a hole in space that falls across and leaves a certain number. Forget the thirds in this and the silhouettes change place. You can no longer have a choice. You start at zero by the church called word in the forest by a beach beyond the sea between a fingernail at the moment logic begins. Basic liquids add a soup. Now change it. Write down I can no longer state a model is at work. Then make filters for each body. Draw all the composition off. Forbid readers to leave. This sea as a mixture and the sand relating questions to the horizontal movements of a prebiotic plan. You are now discovering that concrete form involves both circulation and the clinamen. Start to weave and you’ll connect this space. Now try to say the eye is paradoxical so that all future lines repeat a plate. Nothing is narrative. Now alter it. The equator drops and float upstream. A pluralist sidewalk remains. Go back to the start. The Saturdays stay close to a catastrophic separation. The bridge is now a son who kills the father at a crossroad. In the well of the week drops the son’s name. Add wings to it. Now set out all the other links to constitute a set of probable ideas. The crevice of the lip connects a writing that’s as still as ink. This final switch is exactly what’s happening. The constant factor in a cloud.
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