Trees for the Four Forests

for Cathy

Ghost of ghosts:

a woman who makes circulating medium off the dead

by crushing ravens within x miles of their former

houses or lodgings.

Singular: the father who is still single man

he insists to himself up against the world.

I am talking about "the writing world" in one as well as the other cases.

A woman desolates herself to- become this soul

The father figure doesn't know enough about abandonment

to level consider that what he is doing-attacking his

writer daughter and his writer son-the father

weighs in heavily: origin up against origin,

indigo secondary planet versus moon over Stockholm,

nightbook ofa child writer, night-book of

the translated adult. Mr spirit and Mr. Hat and M Raven

answer near the greatest in quantity indigo of the four forests,

nearest this faculty of perception of destroyed mathematics,

vacant spellings, bird wings used

for alphabets and visitor-passes and bricks

and stones and pins and stones and shells

and busted doll parts washed up like the artist

who has become an artist-lodged-in-stone.

Singular are the tree for the four forests.

The words that cut them and put them upon trucks.

The drivers who drive them to the cities of the angels.

And the lanes of the souls And the ports of the world.

And the vanishing 'I" in a vanishing world.

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