Interviews for Poems
by Eric Linsker

Then [the object] as retreat

among ten or twelve yards

my hands heavy [lift]

Shadow positing the thing

as a way of stopping [use]

Will I mean for ?

I think of “before it can happen”

delay in the newspapers

covering over her body]

you know the big blue and white buildings [gray and white]
in front of myself

 

Open mouth without scream

The men return
with sacks [over their shoulders]

[“I can feel the tablecloth”]
[before it can happen]

The scene quiet as I leave it
[and they became one person]

 

This in the act of emerging –

accounts for the blurred – grass .
Being fired at [seven] times. The grass
in the act of emerging,
already from ten or twelve yards,
right among us, the being fired at, already there.
Then “grass” already there. Nothing
new is [happening]. What I
can't say about the bullet, the grass
silvering as it's posited
[there are sides]
[burgeoning] [back down]

 

Photography becomes social because we can't kill anything

Also not seeing himself also showing him the photograph

You see, he's moving back

[then the – still – being left] [we see or we know by then ]

to feel myself rising but I want to feel – the other going down – I cannot feel down for
the other. I cannot feel “observe” for the other.

I can only observe the other [it used to be] – I would have to begin
as the object. What I “know” comes in and shuts.

 

As we have to have – the beginning – of the line

[the plane in another language finding back ]

What if I stood in a building

[between “disciplines”]

 

Up to now we've been talking about photographs which are in existence – [which you choose]

Now let's talk about photographs which are not in existence

We will have to talk about all of them

[“this” as the only human interaction]

First there is the photograph

The bag of peas and potatoes falls flatly on the floor of the – lift

[but suddenly through a graph]

DS You prefer to

FB Totally alone. With their memory

 

Answers are made by finding back and changing the questions

[I meant injury] But tell me who today has been able to record

anything that comes across – as a fact without causing injury

to the image

 

if I had really thought about what causes somebody to scream,

what is it would come like

the water which is [already there]

 

Buoyancy: an open mouth may not be a scream

[“not”] [on the other side of] [limit]

 

The image of the human –
– the names for things –
there would not be centuries –

 

[stopping action?]

We throw something on

 

Now: which the other does not know

: and this constitutes the demarcation point

 

[what we call describing a technique ]
[what we call nor to tell time ]
[the voluntary] [one slick side]

from “now on” we saw a dorsal fin in the water. There was no time. In which that became what we saw

say

A man but further off [waving]

The side of sleep like a bell

 

Also people sitting on benches

a kind of caution

[the numbers being called
before they came up]

 

what they mean. And yet I don't know what they mean. A strategy [but you can throw]
[now working beyond reason]
[now /wavers/]
[There's a further step to that: the whole questioning
of what appearance is ]
[I mean it comes about somehow one doesn't know how]
[Somebody paints my room]
[reading the poem as]
[thinking about doing]

[like a street]
[the images would be naked figures, but not literal naked figures]
[“this” limit to my pain] [and the other side of the limit]
Because this is not a film, I cannot say what grass means
[I saw you from the hill in the park
and running, came into each word
for the first time]

I write back

and if shadow has a subject

is unaware

for charity we have to posit action

described as the hawthorn

she comes up the walk

its opposite like a shadow

zip (she whispers) zip


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