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Dorothy Alexander
 

TROIS GNOSSIENNES (after Erik Satie)

I

slow

soliciting glitter

 

interrogate

fragments of meaning

 

little by little

on your tongue

 

II

don’t leave

swerve into amazement

 

escape within the fissured

kindness of daylight

 

wander from the subject

with

 

arrogance

the faint lights of intimacy

 

III

 

perspicacity was never meant to provide loneliness

 

hanging slack in an affectation

of obsolete

mined

buried in the ground

I would advise arming with remote workings of the head’

 

distant

carried far into the place

where chasms of sound

judge mere and hollow wisdom