THE POETIC HOUR

Genesis

NO EARTHLY LIGHT
      “The gifted expression is touched by a fiat lux.”               
               –stephanie pope, From The Unhappy Hero, Part 7

Our magical, (h)our’s 

a manner of making

like a moon reflecting

no earthly light

yet something earthy
in it

poetic things require
a space of their own

Derrida says
I say

calling his temporized zone
the h-space―Ric calls it

one
zero

which he says is like no
standing on om

making from nothing
something

what Ric says
I say


is like the light of the one mind
shaping shades out of

the darkness of the one

zero

and so why something
and not nothing

that
question

gives birth to philosophy
gives the socratic awareness, too

two to we, wee who knowingly
know they don’t―whee!

Something that is, is

without having ever been

“thing”
before

before things
techno h-places things

somewhere elsewhere nowhere else
“h’ere” in a distance collapsing

lenses of perception cleansing
in a temporized zone for making

nowhere in you, a paradise
no place nor thing

zippo
nada

what is
isn’t

one
zero


but a third not given
and this newness is “youness”

knowing and not knowing ie.
“twoness”

poetic space, image

double doubling

on
& on

the world, as it is
infinite, always (k)new

poetic things
minding their own

©2016 Yes! It’s A Kind Of Magic! stephanie pope mythopoetry.com


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