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JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT |
Reading
a Book Marked by Another
for S.Q.
O glorious wavering
free-hand line
the unrulered not unruly line
straight as humanly
possible
which is to rise
and dip
yet persevere
push
a head linking the parted words
then
down to the next row
the continuing underscore
penciling
the sense of
the passage
of a
furious attention
a graph(it)ed enthusiasm.
Here, mind says, is
the ore
a seam,
here, line says
a
mind mining the text. Thisthisthis. And
this
is like following one
with a flashlight
along a
cave
Look what some previous dweller has
made. . .
and
here we find . . .
Ah yes, marvelous.
Let us
marvel.
Not marred
when
you know the marker
the one who shaped
such a graceful bracket
it’s a
great bird em-
bracing
bearing the whole
paragraph
over
the margin
out to
{you must
see.
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