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Cathy Eisenhower


 

 

Documentation Strategies

 

i


the line is not/cut.
           dial
tone gone
for reasons
           likely,
coming

           *

where
goes the where-
withal; withal
           chained to
park bench.
missing.

           *

add your
           self
to the water
whichever attends
follicular imaginings
           climbing
black stairs


           *

archive in
           flesh
careens swinging damp
information.
will
           the dropped
particle now
Visible--dis-
orient

 

 

           *

he was a
ceremony true but triumph
of a character blurred,
returning
                      to slurry


           *

                      next
ancient traits
surface, the shape
preserved of
taut tail and quiet
prick, archival
           terror-
izing the second
time


           *

about to
           burst, hold
spilling
in under deep in-
formation's weight

 

 

 

 

 

 

ii

                      in-
Habit, bite &
cleave.
codex caught in
fluid codex is
           fluid by trapped
informing the
           micro-scopic
action


           *

pre-
           positioning
the grit down
confuses floor/sole/
           macabre
affection for the
eyelid grown
slowly furry.
           infuses
affection with
           colorizing blind
to black
                      versus
to blue
                      turning



           *

fibrillations
locked together
sweetly

 

 

 

 

           *


quietest regulations
preserve every
                      byte each
glittering
           
  potential;
is churning filament
invisibly in the dank
meaningful prepare
                      for broad
air
                      continue
preparing for



           *

keeping
           what terrible
particle slipped behind
the previous is it
not revealing itself is it
           were it
here, still
were it still
churning


           *

speculation drags
around this
                      and that
which is more you
think with matter
swerving around erotic
           shelves off-gas
such particular synonyms for
decay

 

 

 

 

 


Cathy Eisenhower was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and lives in Washington, DC. She's currently translating the work of Argentine poet Diana Bellessi in collaboration with her. Eisenhower's poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Phoebe, canwehaveourballback, etc., and Phylum Press published her chapbook, Language of the Dog-heads, in 2001.


 

 

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