Sunday, February 2, 2025

The Honor Guard Steps Up

 



The Honor Guard Steps Up

                 for Taegre


                Everything in the world has a spirit that can be released by its

               sound.

                                    Oskar Fischinger to John Cage

you teach us

            you teach us new

                        meanings to breathing new

                                    meanings to speed new meanings to

                                                98.6 degrees & to keeping it to

                                                            98.6 degrees you teach us

the sum of the

            distance in hours

                        in the hours of being

                                    discovered unswung

                                                to shouldering this

                                                            moment like a soldier-                        

 

trained honor

            guard you teach us left

                        right     left       right tight        

                                    in the concave soffit

                                                of the cheek, in

                                                            synchronized time

 

the polish of it

            you teach us brass

                        the flat pall falling

                                    precisely at the sitting-

                                                down-eye’s line of

                                                            sight, a line so true

 

if it were music

            it would move too

                        a step   a step   a

                                    step      a step a step

                                                at a time           the body

                                                                                    your body

paused in its

            bonehold

                        to begin in

                                    another body

                                                and another body

                                                            and another      body

 

hold                 hold        hold    

                                present    

blow out        

newly corporeal                



                        

                       

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