POINTS ON THE GRID
George Bowering
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TELEPHONE METAPHYSIC
..................................... for
Angela
Most time you are a
................................voice made tiny by a telephone.
You must tell me what you look like,
the way you are sitting, what you are wearing
...............& you cannot
...............tell me the look of your eyes
...............because
...............that does not come thru a talking machine
The things I hear you tell me
are past the meta margin of the mind
...............You are really there
...............when my eyes can go out &
...............tell it back to my hands & mouth/
...............the texture & the turn of you
...............You
...............sitting beside me in my car/
...............your face
...............made real
....................................by the light/ from a lamp post
...............Your eyes
...............touching your light on me
...............:things you could never tell me on a telephone
But standing here in a gaslit phonebooth
I still ask you to tell me how you are wearing your hair
...............You are not really there
...............but I push against the margins of my mind.
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