Cog

"Best only tackle little problems and tidy up small corners. A man tears himself to bits by grappling with the whole machine."

- D.H. Lawrence, in a letter to Else Jaffe

and what is it like in language? paramount. the terraform. lifting Etruscan pressures. separating articles. the way objects of our world sleep around us. staining sound with their devices.

we dig up shape. less a definition. in every transaction, or reaction. coffer or coffin.

and what is it like in the mirroring. of opal. vermilion, taut as fish-strewn ponds before dew's eruption. settles on screens, glass tamaracks. surfaces. (a dragonfly hovers over, it's him, him--).

don't you see? if i make sense. a death out of here.

trope: the stop-start.

littlest parts-- clicking. creaking. invasive. daze, a vacillation. breaking self-- se-lf or sel-f. which? is the dominant. perf   oration