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tree in lake, body as eschaton

a limit named meniscus
the prolepsis of root

call it swamp but the tree
 has no root

first memorize the body's
places the places not of
the body you inhabit
both place and renegotiate


in fact the water surface ground
level compatriot of ground

admits no depth


body as clock first forget
sleep and other absences
of body from time remember
times of action in sequence
in alternation times of same



shines


next kill etymology
a whiteness of symbols;

nearby rectangular
stone complex dusk

squat tree
small lake shallow lake


the body re-emerges
as its own horizon its
own sex its power exert
the body



wind avoids it


pulleys a sock wagon wrench
pushpins microscope shotgun
a socket pen slippers tape
rope needle chain gloves mower
rattle fin latch cars a ring
nut bat phonograph buckles
snap cleats a knob machete
string plates bar lever doorbell



students pass by the tree
mistaking it for heaven


how then another body
its own sex its power times
of same there is no room
for relation seize the body
there is no time until forget
its times and seize the body your
body



has perhaps swallowed cars
(list of objects)

flat water


they do not understand your
body they of one checker
one breathe own your
body own it immortal
body destroy its places
,



© Eric Weiskott
Eric is a young man studying English at Wesleyan University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in "remark.", "Mudfish", "Waterways", and "Superior Poetry News". He won the William Meredith Scholarship to the 2006 Wesleyan Writers Conference and has been named a Wesleyan Student Poet for two consecutive years.
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