[Realpoetik] DAVID HIGHSMITH

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Sun Mar 7 21:29:20 PST 2010


TRAPPE


a blinking star
the germ of  it all
to hatch lines parallel
& crossed

a scratching within
*l’oeuf cosmique*
St. Johns’s shadow
in a lithograph by Durer

a grammar of escape
& detachment
a hymn
sung above the winepress

it’s what it means
to batten down
retreat to a bubble of air
within water

& then to claw
against containment
to peck this hole
& walk through it

to fly  toward sleep
as if to trace
this constellation
under glass



*David Highsmith* lives and works in San Francisco, and hopes to retire to
Casper, Wyoming.  He currently organizes poetry readings and other community
events at his store in San Francisco, Books & Bookshelves, for which he has
received The San Francisco Bay Guardian’s coveted “chain alternative” award,
*7 x 7 Magazine*’s Best of the Best award, a personalized martini shaker
from the *S.F.Weekly*, and the Bookstore Poet of the Year Award from *the
glade of theoric ornithic hermietica* blog.  His latest book is *your
wilderness & mine* from BlazeVox.


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