The Ister
by Eric Linsker

Static-
heather. Someone
picks up a stick.
Their world begins.
Why do we want to qualify as human?
Why would we say that?

Snow-heat. Then “non-accord”

(the skirting
bird


So we must always say we would take anything
in the wood, berries
 There are no qualities


What have we discovered in the 88 years at Historia
and I have had the pleasure and the honor
of 44 years at Historia. It was through this quality


I realize I’m saying beautiful things.
in medias res swallows

And make place
for coming
from. position-position
so that they have to feel it on their body

Here I climb into the “construct forest”. And
I had before. This
reception-quality, sign with the wordblind
on the
snowwrists
You know nothing’s at stake, right?

The robin waiting
As close to the ground as she can get now

(I can’t see anything we have done?)


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