Tuesday poem #641 : R. Kolewe : from Emergent Occasions

Tuesday, 3:51pm, partly cloudy & warm earlier, clouds coming in from the north, variegated greys & dull steel blue.

 

A parallel text, I said, maybe
cutting up & scattering holograms
means doing some things again the same
or different, I’m not sure. 

But there’s variation & sameness
on another page a list
of place names, every list always
incantation, algorithm, fiction. 

Implication of temporal order
& a certain tone of voice.
I’ve theorized a structure.
A provisional structure, almost 

forgetting this tipping point, today
the vernal equinox.
Or was that yesterday? It moves.
It’s ok, I said I would edit this later.

 

 

 

R. Kolewe has published four collections of poetry, A Net of Momentary Sapphire (Talonbooks, 2023), The Absence of Zero (Book*hug, 2021), Inspecting Nostalgia (Talonbooks, 2017), and Afterletters (Book*hug, 2014) as well as several chapbooks. He lives in Toronto.
kolewe.net 

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan