Tuesday poem #648 : Babar Khan : Tathata

 

 

to be singing in the Discourse
to be placing the Cherries of Things
to be the Tunnel of It
to be the Brain of the Tunnel
to Repair the Tube of Something 

to Ascend in an Escalator Dream
to Mythify a Mechanism
to Mechanize a Marsupial
to Sauté an Escargot
to Startle Margot
Hemingway 

to Segue
into a Stanza
to Paragraph a Feel
to feel Emotional Fluoride
to Ride a Computer Wave
to Surf Deuterium
to Yum a Paramecium 

to Mull a Twilight
to Light an Afternoon
to Moon a Corridor
to Door a Tunnel
to Tunnel a Black Hole
to Whole a Singularity
to Single a Chaos
to Chaos an Abyss
to Vacuum a Void
to Void an Entropy
to Excess a Success
to Cess a Noise
to Silence an Exhaust
to Exhaust a Silence 

to Silhouette a Marionette
to Marry a young Bastet
to Sex a Sextet
to Seduce a Library
to Book an Entrecôte
to Bouquet a Triumphal Arch
to Arc a Galaxy
to Traverse a Multiverse
to Witness a Singularity
to Time an End-Event 

to Phase Space

to Pause an Infinitude

 

 

 

 

Babar Khan is a Canadian writer, poet, and art photographer who grew up partly in Paris, France and partly in Toronto.  His poems have appeared in Canadian literary journals such as Contemporary Verse 2 (Vol. 21, no. 4), Rampike (Vol. 19, no. 2, Vol. 21, no. 2), and Vallum (Vol. 12, no. 2). His photographs have been exhibited at Month of Photography L.A. and on Lensculture. He has also featured multiple times over the years at the Art Bar (most recently in July 2024), at Emerging Writers, and other reading series in Toronto. 

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