Counter Fluencies 63
Mark DuCharme
Too much light & jabber
Near the window to be dreaming
We reignite
In plain sight
‘Interface’ & amble
Into the inexact cold bright
Lucid with winter
& What we there uncover
As dusk above the mountains
Spills
At the exact wrought impact of a leaf at evening
Toward which we surge when all is errant
Pieces of nightfall
& Poetry’s a ‘technology’ of the sayable
The spoken & unheard
All is broken faces
Lifted (not) from screen
Afraid of the here, the gaudy
Lights which spell out ‘VERDE’
In the darkening atmosphere we dare not
Crush dare not un
cover
In dim moonlight
Nor dream by spilling
Over in
Another
Broken day
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Mark DuCharme is the author, most recently, of The Unfinished: Books I-VI (BlazeVOX, 2013). Other volumes of his poetry include Answer (2011) and The Sensory Cabinet (2007), also from BlazeVOX, as well as Infinity Subsections (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2004) and Cosmopolitan Tremble (Pavement Saw, 2002). Counter Fluencies 1-20 is forthcoming as an issue of the print journal The Lune.