Transparent Words - Poetry

 
PREFORMED PERFORMED
 
By Lawrence Upton
 
 
walk through the wall
I do
	why don't you?

 

on the other side of...

 

there are    orderliness

 

 

paths    connecting

 

points    you select

 

 

nothing    new

 

quiet    unexpected

 

 

recognisables

 

and other less familiars

 

 

look in

 

 

nothing, threatening
but not    inside

 

inside      is always

 

and music

 

promise?

 

inside    is

 

 

forms change
into clangs &
cliques disintegrating
symbols cash
themselves
in perpetuity

 

inside             is on

 

the move           is on

 

the other is on

 

spend and acknowledge

 

walk through

 

 

the wall
is a barrier one side
a guide
as the perimeter of a

 

given a circle

 

a diameter doubling
     as a radius
in lieu of a centre
a parameter
for the wanderer

 

the planetary surface
all the space
                      I need
my molecules
reassemble
my atoms comply
all the time
in the world

 

out of it...

 

nothing is possible
but let's not
go
into that
gentles

 

energise

 

 

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