Palinode 6: Bitter-like

In this lap language I’m not speaking sweetly.

I’ll tell you the workbook words I really don’t understand:

Crisp body
Bright flavor
Noble rot.

This one I say daily:
Viscosity

:

“A measure
Of the resistance
Of a substance
To motion
Under an applied
Force.”

This sound will ruin you:
malolactic fermentation.

I say them,
Make them up,
Make them indivisible.

This is:
--German style
--South African style
--From the Loire Valley

Just a word bank, and still they ask me:

What does dry mean?

My voice is:
noble,
bright,
and crisp.

I would rather an empty table--
Ware without contingency,

Bitter-like, I say

For (preposition) no reason.

Palinode 5

I will make no sound like
Ruin--

Like ruin I will make
No sound in, above, beside, like--

This is (Greek) for in
No namable preposition;

Combine them (Latin? German?)
I do not know what they mean:

Night jasmine
State room
Star connection
Jungle gym
Night jasmine
Air conditioner
Honey mouse
Visualization
Floor sample

My voice is a crepuscule unfinished--
Things said only to be seen,

Deaf night coming
nothing formed,
nothing important.

These things, something (like)
a full table, the feathers without the bird,
soundless
         content.

Palinode 4

‘Formed’ sounds an
important word,

ticks crisply to
one notch up.
           Hearing is not
twilight, your voice
is not downy, not
goosefeathers—

I will make
           sound

like a Person, like a
Window Opening, like
a Piano to-
gether—
        Order your
        Court, consort your
        Horses— surely,

You are important
Amorphous
        Un-
Formed;

These     words     are     enough     born,

larger.

sounds like

I won’t neither
Make sounds like
Person or piano
Rememory the
Old when the
New comes up
Hearing your voice
Is like crepuscule
With Nellie, I consort
With my lips
The sun is unstuck
Undone I have muttered
Past crisp crossings
They are still new
I still -read motionless or
Quiet or yet- cannot say them.

as best he can

As best he can
he will say he was
at least a body

-fingers-

-untoward texture-

he does not realize,
around the new, the old
inhabits grey matter;
to remember a concert
with a person or piano
is not remarkable;
hearing

-unuseful-

-copied-

music;
he runs his fingers through
his straight blond hair,
over his scalp
it is not beautiful--
thinning in ten years.