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Monday, October 20, 2003

New poem from my favorite pixie-poet Mark Anthony Cayanan....



         Against



         Before you was myself,

         before being a lost reason

         behind a photograph, or a few

         erased words in a poem’s

         draft, or a moment,

         or a somewhere of moments

         formerly inhabited, even

         habitable: the cold

         as a comfortable

         abode—

                  Where I am now

         is near you. Or much closer,

         against you, against being

         more than it often is:

         your wingspread of sky

         encroaching mine, and then

         talon to talon, beak breaking

         beak, and then the plumage

         of plummet.

                  What I mean

         is shadow to surface:

         on you, I rest, or am: the dark

         as defined by the wall, without

         which this shape will go on

         sinking, releasing itself,

         sinking into—

                  Hostility

         and dependence—one

         for the other, one as the other:

         how this opposition is my form

         of “touching”

                  —Don’t you know

         it’s not a matter of choice,

         love? It is survival.



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