3 Disassociations

For Matt Mullican

1.

To pin
down the finger
in its own skin

would close
our eyes
if the eyes would

how we consent
to pin down
a mode of pins.

Bulletins.
Bullets.
Ken.

2.

Close the eyes
light dark
toned

brightened refract
in spoons reflect
on shield

for certain a move
of eyes
in the painted

nears an object
of photography
let’s pretend

tend to
sit, still, while,
the world ends—

O another re-
flection, and O an-
other,

close your
eyes
for this world.

3.

Nature morte,
more your grim,
ace moves, or
tower, pinned
down, caption,
swells tongue,
more like a
gum, the blotter,
gummy
guns, of these
eyes,
bleed, a,
patina,
frost webs, meets
its own,
swelling maker,
wholly, twisting
like that,
frieze, gum,
to twist guns,
to hidden consequences,
turns, insider
of light,
or dark tons,
the movements of,
tuning the of,
of no longer,
for,
the light
in these trees,
accreting, those,
synapse below,
rage node lower,
attention range
brown noise,
limbic note,
liminal,
limn, signs
syncope
pictures,
to attention,
you really,
pin me,
an image
if I can’t think of
an image,
nor for then,
you, it is you,
I think of,
then,
not a
place as imageless,
as sex,
less
with fingers,
a kind of death,
a kind, death
in your sexless,
mouth man,
a part, the prose
rotting away,
the intimate, narrowness,
of hidden all,
in reflection,
chills, reflect
almost,
whiter,
like having,
they are almost like,
having, the world,
morose, or it is done,
with remembering,
done for,
distraction,
by disassociation,
the fingered, guilt,
of a blotted,
guilt,
a,
cross, me,
my less,
in, description,
blots,
too content,
to consent,
light,
a privilege,
gums
a twist,
to tongues,
the, print,
and smudge,
it singly,
pin,
discolorment
not,
in history, whiter,
of the subject,
fuzz stillness,
to have,
history,
all of the,
space of these eyes,
psyche,
to die for,
in this tree gazing,
between, we keep
things for the,
sunny,
towers to not,
see,
to see not