from “one”
XXII: one
One / atop one
wants
owning miraged / “Then in their adjacency,
the inherent / things interrupted”
There are its isolations / many enough one
hearts of island /
one happens to be the thing
that’s right /
to remain obscure to
those
for those to be hid
hid to not hid /
from
XVIII: one
“… they / ?”
Stint / lone
after gone into their
own by at,
unattached to its series
one / its own parts
/
Muzzles to
everything
One,
syntax
loosens out from
/
javelin that does not echo
only certain things you make foreign / whatever is
less
emphasizes the other
count your insides
a certaining cancel ones off /
to
cancel / even
adjacent
sounds
XVII: one
“To be no one’s sleep under so many
Lids.”
knows
ward, split
one full / too, off island
one misinterprets the thing
/
the only thing left deserves it
simple lists / one blurs of course out /
from
one
taking
which
conjecture and silence, days
without place
the island rages predictable
flares
the definitions / spread
to include, singled
to
/ I
am not
aware of them
spearing to exist
XVI: one
Fog of shorn / if being one
is inside
& sober
is / if
language is last
is
the event of one
“one must not confuse
a happiness of the past for
the happiness of the present”
which / for everyone
is
general
which
facets / unsettled
one facet owned upon / other
facets / what is this a thing
without owner / the event of one
your face does not come apart
which is one / is in no past apart
from
XV: one
There is measure to
the effectiveness of
memory / one
is
a rip
in deserts
everyone goes to
Histories body
/ one
staggered
phase
one
juts
under
tier
“whoso list to hunt it with a camera, / Ange Mlinko
hunted to nothing emerald?”
Matthew Johnstone has more recent writing in Likewise Folio, and Cricket Online Review. More of this project (“o n e”) is with Opon, and Inpatient Press, and soon a chapbook for the buying. He is one half of the arts journal ‘Pider, of Tennessee, Nashville, America.
