winter 7

winter notes 

ellie epp

6.

 

 

because wherever they are i am somewhere too

 

 

 

in a sound i then made & watched over           saw its stream narrow & widen

 

in the sound realizing she was in the sound alone & possibly not

 

 

listening to anyone, the sorts of systems that were listening

 

the series of unfinished barely begun glimpsed guessed structures     mistakes     disjunct images        the other interpolated    hit    missed    & in a stream of work

 

 

the heating of water for a bath, the folding & hanging of a garment before going to sleep

 

juicy & fresh water smell is it ovulation

 

 

black and white rain

 

 

when it squeezed down under the door the little instant of its body

 

 

old thin woman in a knitted cap smiling at the chill, raised her red umbrella over her lap

 

 

sitting across from the strength of her eyes

 

 

i'm a minute looking and then believe maybe she means what i see           then the little smile, whose quality -

 

 

when the mischief face lay under me asking for  -  it  -  maybe

 

 

the currency of your primal

 

 

his dark red sweater

 

 

i was entrusted to his sense of movement, my love was for its quality