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Jan 2014
why and how should you know?

behind beneath in between the teeth

my fingerprint whorls and whirls

under other's names and
my secret identities

a word a phrase a hatchet a blade a
pruning knife,
a confession of confusion,
relieved by my cutting saves.

my stamp secreted my ***** implanted

my style unseen yet bidden,
my name hidden, my children born
but still is my heart,
like the parent that
has given up the child.

but you love my
screamed and un screamed, and my undoing of
the doing you not see me named

nature in paces and means
admit pleasure at my scrivinings
there but for the grace of whom

but to me

for am I but the
editor
o'er my bones that
*nobody knows
nobody sees,
nobody knows,
but me^

you tread,

crunching my invisibility
to smoke and smithereens,
the pimple on the poem
lifeless turned luscious,
yet, gnome gone the next day
^ Lyric from "long black veil", always give credit to the dew.


here a period, there a comma,
a phrase truncated,
a work saved, nay,
reimagined,
in the forest's silence
who can tell,
who swung the axe,
who grew the tree?
Nat Lipstadt
Written by
Nat Lipstadt  M/nyc
(M/nyc)   
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