“The world is something not enough people dream of, one
Shouldn’t use the word dream & one shouldn’t use
The words should and shouldn’t” - Bernadette Mayer
Avis says something like this: that she has never had enough
“unto” - that when she grew up she always was adding and looking for
the extra fact: do unto others as you would have them do unto you
was coupled with this additional seeking of and if you do unto them
as you would do unto you they will then do unto you what you would
like them to do - she says “there was never enough ‘unto’ in my life” -
the world is something unto her stories -
the world is the moon attached to the stupid boat -
the stupid boat is in the stupid harbor under the stupid shadow of the
stupid rock-like-moon tonight
white men realize as hunters after only thousands of years
that deer live according to the lunar calendar or rhythm
this stupidity pleases me but now i am more afraid for the deer
at this door a lunar book dangles from the door
to indicate to those living by lunar calendars
this is a safe harbor
we are not so stupid as some mostly white men
would assume
- when you die
you will think of this and your darkling eyes
and your darling blending in with the landscape
of this above all snowy and unexpected towns -
the moonophobic will be secrets:
secret milk bottles
secret shoes
secret people at wakes and rituals for secret reasons
i am your door
i am your fault
i am your lunar shoulder
i am a member of your lunar family
moon unto moon
lake’s end
---Michael Burkard
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