Jackson

facing each other
one truth apart
——Kevin Gillam

i this
     thing
          itchy with text

Your voice is an underground stream
hiding small eyeless creatures
Touching you is breaking something

again we
     pass
          masked
in black
     filmed
          skinvisible
the huge unsaid
     suspended
          wired

again we
     pass
          filmed
in black
     framed
          in bits
skinvisible
     maintain our com-
          position

particles ex-
     changed only
          in theory
functions col-
     lapsed only
          in thought

Your voice is an underground stream
Touching you is

i this thing itchy
     with text
breaking something

The epigraph is from Closer to Now by Kevin Gillam, Picaro Press 2009, p. 14.

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