Wednesday, June 20, 2007

shyku of kitchen midden against early killings of the road

where possum plus is squashed
by driving so many
carelessly from where thru
jealously recurring with
many steps as height
whoever leads this
mess is directly
the mirror

2 comments:

Ahab Cloud said...

Can you describe the method of composition for this Shyku?

yogacephalus said...

steve, there was no method of composition to speak of. a possum was killed in the street right beneath the porch of my new house and the inability of the people to avoid it moved me.

are you asking about how i rendered the perspectival shifts? well, that's just my way of dramatizing the--as i see it, fated--interrelationship of all things. Which predicates, what, an acceptance of certain cruel facts in the face of what the wondering mind can't hold or actually account for?

to write like this, read proust, virginia woolf, w.g. sebald, ashbery, vallejo, Et Cetera.