Without Other than seeming or seemingly so As if in the image / a reality /( clear in a mirror’ s clarity) Or a voice saying see me / on the verge of myself / everything By a name or by another / as if other will be / seamless even in a question’ s embroidery Like Aegean waters / a clarity / pure mirror Again / time’ s repetitions / eternal to the final moment What would you be if you were not what you are? Again / like water’ s repetitions / multiple mirrors into which Into which / on a day / given / or taken( Take!) Take and sing / by mouth’ s authority / confirmed and atoned As if in other circumstances( but there are no other circumstances) Shall we give it then the guise of a name / or a song / or its absence Propose a third proposition / alternatives / to presence or to absence? That it might be /( and not just seemingly)/ flicker of flame in a cave The jostling shadows / bull’ s head painted on a rock / dwellers Among the shadows the dwellers This has been sung /( troubadours of half-light)/ a recital Vision / vision-bird / as if unto the descendents / like water in a mirror or fairground lights in rain Veil of seemingness / between what might and what is / shifting border Perhaps even a text / dialogue / monologue / dialogue / shifting border Perhaps / limits of a word / thus of the world In other words though there are no other words /( might that be given a music?) Recital visionary / beyond all seeming Word into bird from the nest of language clear as a mirror /( or lake) But do not / do not move / here( is the ledge) Clarity only at the turbulent core / magma and surface / a fire About which in a cave might gather those with chalk in their hands