Zoë  Hitzig
When the swallows haul up into sky
we would correct their color with digital
projection. We would look into the eye
of the projector. It will singe our retinas.
Make lace of them. We swoon
over the geometry of vision. It is
the geometry of a postcard plus a point.

Sleeping above rooftops I hear a truck
loading / unloading as the dawn still
takes requests. Its long low lowing
the desperate voice of granite pushing
metamorphic schist or the corporate
announcement that another uncomformity
has been amassed by the seabed.

But you know this. You finger the palmlines
of the seafloor. Tell me does evolution fail

to track independent truth or must we construct
finer tools, weightier estimations? Tell me—
from the book MEZZANINE / Ecco
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