Poetry
☐ descriptions that leave out
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a low tone, a bellow
and they were all said
to have left the span
apart with strangers
though that it should never have been
sought, fled or lit is calling forth
form from a port within (.) it
thus, i stayed it, started
for an intimation a
sudden nothing but remaining
small and admittedly it was nearly
all possible, tall grasses
then with still bent thin stalk
or what appeared as blank husks
fell, (their) greens dimming swaths as
they should around me, lips
and bouts of distance
that had their own years
all this fill i
gaped obediently at
as it then came close
settled short for a while
with breads and fruits as tresses for
mere repetition, the strange glow
of all the sudden recurs in limb
numbs them bright, stables
for indecision
in case of
need: imperfection
clothed and spoke to
be loathe to remarkably more
than mouthing someone pent
unless gaps dispel and soon
empty amid plinth
greens, why not go to them (?)
if you will you will
gleam from it quietly non-
glare given here scattered as
pitches at nearly empty
hollows and shine that have
been shown us to prevent all this
what then is there still to be
left out, to be small
with to be still with
the still seen, all this ore-
glow to yield to
dew unbeading and not that
a drop dismantled hides me in order
not to go to them, a forced home
in notation, grasses, a name out
inaccessible resound no
surfaces were returned me but maps
without accumulation no one will
be there holding up
eponymous as though with cold
if it should be allowed
a title to occupy it, immed
then, or on is it
acres of frost almost
barking that they should
not be emphasized
to fail nuance, i finally gained the ruin
its least seen side or the rest
coloring leaves behind
or a small wood with no constraints
on replacing need
poised to lop off a fragment a(t) length
of needle jutted out and shook, bore
shade down a bit
that it is possible
to point anywhere longer
than the sound or the bend
it rounds, that is something
searched carefully enough
such that it can be approached, that is
how is one at its none
i would have
to begin to make a sound
to wish to arrive yet did not
instead audibly huddled, immediacy pulled
from clean grey plumage middle
dim rods slumped over the dents in things
that pose as what they impress
and though they all grew out
wards gaining one another, conifer
nettle bits, however it is said
to be unmarked or (un)toward
how possible is its remaining
hulled up as all objects are
seeping away then to
come back little once i've stopped
something to do with sides you've disappeared
into, face in the shake quickly
abolish this ambiguity
and replace it with
another i decidedly crest
and the varying distances from
the embrace of small hills on
certainty below here admits
wonder without referring to it, seeing
oneself off cliff-lip with
a fall and this too blimps, veers
aside in this way carries out light
furnished by such a source gathered
from, lent to, left by
something unnoticed then improved
upon, i thought you
resemblance was (us) unremarkable
a tunnel that enclosed
slept us like a blow or was itself
listening for duress
what would a mistake
here look like, a small brook
stilling focus as examples
standing for entire bodies in
which one can not take any
step for focus or what brimmed
there assumes a too
few, where the trees
caustic though not too, spill
uneven brown gravel
such that dusts cone up
to be mapped was
then not a lack at
all but talk of their draw on me
a cause to be at a
loss more rigorously flawed
than its object and
despite all that is dinned into
i left everything
out except
that one was lead
there yellows limn
fleeing points, the top twelve feet
of pine making (uncertain)
that one had nothing more
to enclose, likely
Contributor
Binswanger FriedmanAfter studying philosophy and mathematics he received an MFA in poetry from CUNY Brooklyn College. Through a Fulbright grant he then moved to Vienna, where he continues to live, write, research and translate. He is an active member of the translation collective, VERSATORIUM and is the co-founder/editor of the poetry journal, a Perimeter. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in VOLT, The Capilano Review and (in German translation) in manuskripte and hammerausgabe. He will spend 2016-17 in Germany on a DAAD grant.