PERPENDICULAR 1: COGNITO
John Bradley

 

 

              (or "Oh, Lucy, We'll Tell It More Than Slant"

                           with apologies to Wordsworth)

 

 

A.I.—she the—NO—she rolled with

Slumber had seemed : ( touch / motion) : —neither round rocks

Did no—a—of—has—hears in—AND

My human THING—earthly—she—nor earth's stones

Spirit fears : ( that—years—"now") : Sees diurnal. And

SEAL; — ; —could , [...] no [...] course : trees.

               (...) (...) —not : force.

               — . — . ( feel )

 

 

 

 

 

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John Bradley lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he studies twentieth-century American literature. He is currently finishing a dissertation on modernist and contemporary American poetry.