Anna Rugis.

at the marina

a confraternity on land

the same winds that ping your wires

assail this deep rooted genus

 

you shoulder and groan in your bays

while they alone and actinoid

converse across and intimate

through the salt electrics of earth

 

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the sage of ihumatao

tomorrow i will begin looking for the rock

that will make sense of insensible things

 

first i will walk to the north

and if i don't find it there

turn west

because that is the direction of blessing

i won't stop at the gray and white dunes

i've been there before

and all i found was windstripped wood

 

the hardest part will be

not to be distracted by outcomes

to keep my eyes on the ground

consenting

 

and if i have to turn south

i will not be the first or last

i will be like all those

who try to live lighter than they speak

deeper than their age

 

which is how i will forget

that i am looking for a rock

and how without noticing

i will curve to the east

and very likely

find it

 

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i'm searching around for something

 

leaning to the left

to the right

 

swaying

feeling anxious as if

there's something shifting

 

i can't feel it but i can feel

that there's something there

like having an idea

but no mind to

square it in

 

there's this dog next door

locked in the back yard

it stands around

and looks at things

if i lean out my upstairs window

and whisper it's name

it will stare at me

for longer than i care to stare back

 

it has an idea

something about cages

 

and all it can do is sympathize with me

whispering up here in mine

 

when the weather's good

neither one of us complains

though we do

still stand around

and stare a lot

 

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"Howick and Eastern"

i saw the baby on the bus again

this time i followed it home

 

somewhere along that route

there must have been a place where joy snapped

and the hands turned down

 

you'd say it simply

slipped your grip

stood up and ran off

i'd say that's your grip talking

 

let's ask the baby

 

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flight 841

right now

if you were looking

you would see me

if you were looking

you would see your own

future

if you were looking at this particular moment

you'd see the underside of things

the beads and bubbles that make it all up

you might even catch

the kingfisher

catching three kings in a row

but me

looking

for sure

 

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occasional island

we call it an island

though the water

doesn't meet around it

until the top of the tide

it is an occasional island

the full-grown islands

watch it from offshore

when it finally

breaks loose and floats out

they will name it

and give it a permanent place

or it wont

and they wont

and the city will

strap it on with an

 

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