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vasubandhus accident

john martone

samuddo/ ocean2013


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vasubandhus accidentcopyright 2013 by john martone

ISBN: 978-1-304-09009-6samuddo / ocean

Thanks to Banya Natsuishi for publishingpoems from the group v asubandhus accident

in Ginyu, to Werner and Jane Reichhold forpublishing nebula in Lynx, and to Scott Metz his Roadrunner.

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a bookvasubandhus accident

at seamandalanebula

W scheklammermountainside

skynest

pilgrimspoor

oyster boatssingle roadshadows

weather-vane germination


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mcm


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a book

a booklight enough to discard


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words on a page tra c in snow

snow already sloppy w/ people

late a night shoveling snow into dreams


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shoveling snow

its a narrow path

after the blizzard a distant crows laughter


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just observing

pushing a stuck door open


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only a year the shoe sole splits o


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lots of daylight without a word


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a wind shakes the dark house & sleep spills out


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an ink-stain spreading winter wind outside

an ink-stain from the beginning of time

an ink-stain draws you in perfect night

an ink-stain your winter coats blackness

an ink-stain soon everyones image


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you rotate the ink-stain& there it is circumpolar

a human continent an ink-stain

an ink-stains lobes distant buddha-lands

you close your eyes & the ink-stain runs on

a good shirt ink-stained his name


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you keep repeating that prayer an ink-stain

you wake up from a dream from an ink-stain


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at sea

at seanow

nohawser

no cluenot

eventhat

two-strandedone

stopgrasping


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empty glue-jaron his table

& a buddhathe same height


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ight-feathers& deer skull

there that way


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look out windowthen the windowsafter-image


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make your bedpush it back to the wall


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you cant remember your prayers

exactly how it starts


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nebula

downhillinto fogthat lens

winter fogjust like anyother book


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lost in fogyou rememberhow to y

pissing

thru fogthat sound

winterfog one

lightbulb bare ascan be

in winter fog a clearness about the body


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winter fog a vague crow caws

winter fog

everything elseis skin

same as everyone else this fog

winter fognebulasway out there


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winter fogthe cloud of unknowing

somewhere at home


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Wscheklammer

wasknijperpinza de la ropamolletta per stenderepince ligne

kep phi qun okljukica za periloclothespin

out of touch hanging the laundry


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many clothespinsbut you huntfor a smoke

w/ blurred vision study a clothespin


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clothespinshumanstry to believe

clothespins just becausepeople have ngers

clothespins cigarettes

x this time

clothespinweathered as you are


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his clothespins many amulets

clothespinsholding ontoa foreign language

4 noble truths a clothespin pulled free


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mountainside

dreaming

one neuronturns into a riveryou cross it


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mountainside cavesmotel roomsa blue pool

trailer homesabove a riverit all glints

ancientcars

overgrown


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openthe blinds

& reada verse

rst full moonall the roofssailing o

a single roomin the starsfor you


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sky

sky so clearlet it go


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a homefor the disabledcrow takes you in


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roadside crowa humanwears galoshes

roadside crow knowing where it leads


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nest

you step o the roadout of the windinto a ditch

heroneagle

crowgull

whitewater

mothergone


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rivers bend& everything lostin that mandala

(eyes shut)

that ringof light

contractsto a

point &youre

home


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downstreampiece after piece

the whole broken bowl

(boot sinks)

not quitequicksand

what chancethinking of tortoise shell

nding bird nest


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bird nestcenter of itscandelabrum


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walk thrudump heresa snail

deer tracksin thisdump too

liquor bottle

in winter thicket whistle!


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little bird nest

mothergone


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pilgrim

clean clothesfallingsnow

the loose thread pulls you in


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pilgrim?oh he justwent for a walk

just onepenstrokeseagull


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snow& asun

owerseed

why not

just sit in the light

you glimpse a stranger

in the window & its you


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spoor

snow fallingwhite as in-side this pear


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it snows tillthat branch comesfull circle

in blowing snow everyone a sycamore

some bug youve seen before crossing snow


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squirreltracksin snow

betweentwo

pines justonce


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two-inch snow on the lightnings scar


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spring snowout of

nowhereblood spoor

you follow blood spoor to a hollow tree


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this bootlace comes untied like clockwork

many crowscaw after thatmoment of light

pine needles on snowpoint every wayhere


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oyster boats

walk to the seaits that timeof life


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her chairnow noone sits


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snow melts ceilingfalls in


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8 octagonal glass dessert-plates with spring owers etched aroundthe rims, stacked in a tower, sparkling on the kitchen table. What remains.They are movie-house premiums from the days of quarter picture-showsseventy years ago, meant to say, Thank you please come back!

Youll never know what she saw.

under fallen pinesmaller onesnew ones


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shovel handle crackedroot still holds

study logs facefor hairline crack you start there

driving wedges till the tree-trunk sighs open

youre uninjured amid these hurricaned trees


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autumn winterspring & still

splitting a great oak

music box jewelry box & hope chest you split a great oak


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a rooming house roomlooks out over roofsdripping rain

listen

ancient radioancient rooming house room


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a mildewd book

aboutroom

inghousesin

thisroominghouse


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her log-cabinmusic-box ballerinas gone


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that light

rainy day by the sea

grave settlingin these rainsher ocean bed


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oyster boats rock at anchor in this rainbeing empty


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single road

going way back hanging the toolswhere they belong


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worn-outmake friends

w/ crow

guiltilytying up budding stems


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tulipsin theirown time

tulipsnot of this world

in a hopeless place one thought of tulips

one morningitll be

all tulips

tulips a memory of knees


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tulipstems

lengthen

ingprairiewind

the rainwithout stemshere are tulips

tulipsclose

as you

get


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shadows

you rise& prairie frostlays it all out again


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sideways broke insnail shell

one skycrocus


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cant scrub allthis dirt from

suppers parsnips

parsniproot hairs

just soyou know


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old work bootsyoure catchingat shadows


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weather-vane

house mousein a light xture last nights dream


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chainsaw

hearingsnowfall

bare-headed

snow fallingfrom trees

you follow that deertill youd haveto jump

a wood-knot

warbler takes ofrom snow


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snow-capped

stump youreno one


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snow tumbles from treessh rise to

frog eggs

clumps of frog eggs

islandhouses

clumpsof frog eggs

those whole notes!


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squeaky wheelwarbler abovemuddy snow

fateful plunge snow from high branchonto snow

snow tumblesfrom trees

gulls circle

the lake


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snowboundweather-vane that way


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germination

seedtray soil your pores

snows draw back tomato seedsgerminate


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starting seeds

containersfrom your trash


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pepper seeds basil seeds tomato seeds human eyes

a few hours

forget whatsplanted where


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justimagine

startingseeds

garden

seedmother gone


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cotyledons

a heartbeat


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days get longeryou plant a gardenyou rub your eyes

its good dirtyou crumble ityou cant stop


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