From suburb from exurb
from clock-tower towns
from mother's Big Bang womb
from carefully concealed wounds
from a singer's reverb tail
from a sixth verse denouement.
From penurious diets of silence
from voluble cancer wards
from protracted residencies
from comfortable lofts
from temporary settlements
hungering on the cliffs of days.
From canyons of habit
from wistful incantations
from precarious habitations
from grandiose declamations
from riparian retreats
from the jealous face of place
-- from everywhere.
That is,
from nowhere,
to your desk.
27 June 2008