Words alongside words

words alongside words

 

in substance and form

a word is never a word

but symbol and power

alongside reverse

there are shorter words

and longer syntaxes

that demand we listen

or forget, or extrapolate

from one hermeneutic to another

we linger with the form and it determines

almost nothing without the context

we linger without form and determine

context within the almost

 

a boy and a nude

are but two words

and longer only one

than the other

but nuded lad

denuded lass

remains a willing line

after another will

 

above another

i cannot regard one word above another

but can a lass

above a lad

be regard above dis

regard

and we have gist

gist the two

of us