~ for Louise Nevelson
A colorless guilt
This self-fashioned light 
Of the shipyards shore grey 
Beardless presence 
Of an after
Math after 
An aftermath 
Wood assumes 
Number to not forget 
This distance
Beyond the pale of settlement 
& into 
The arms of this shadow now
We sing a world uncolored
Of those pograms 
A more immediate Kiev
They destroy destroy again 
For the 29th 
Time to ruin 
Ruins affix stack 
This not world
Variations on seen things seen 
Words and wood 
What definition of the present 
To measure slivers
Through the city scraping 
The eye
Fresh it seemed pure conscience, pure
Sense pirched on rocks for thousands
Of years we stand
In this night-
mare counting shadows 
as they fall from earth.
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