For Instance

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for instance

stephen dignazio


ha

ha

40 selling by river my have totally

years water the and efforts been worthless Sogaku Harada


late

autumn

sunset

new horizon

trees veiled

left pink


hindoo love song

blue’s farm wooden barrel table chair where am I there where your voice breathed me too gardens dreams our love my love where am I there now


for Elizabeth

wedding

song

two people in small bride groom not think hard imagine urge procreate to grammar action punctuate extend sure for of but of

tan undress a room and it’s you what’s to the to responds this of I to I'm not lack love loss faith


brother

donkey

sex packs much

only so

crawl

space

be

breath


aerial photography reassuring isn't it


for h p

after WCW

put the cat out put the cat out put the cat out

for Minnie

nicely iris

laid fronds


for Natalie

apple turn

leaves twice

their return

stem again

the stands

door open


swallows the

in shed

hand wings chance

fragile a for

seeing go

letting


next

day

underlighted

bough scene

post night

card fall

is art

it or

is memory

it last

night's now

snow lights


A Yucatan Itinerary

getting

there

jane from cerulean capped particular just que mi to crossing bye doll (lime married shit ham sell dune church light village sun red surf only patient is untoasted not

swings tarzan’s blue white wave look es au bus borders you he’d soup) a bread hooks as night carny squared moon laps dog progress mental past not try to


understand kiss on bus gallop ’em trip buildings again needs mary cunt restauran piss pocket re-stored porno beach poked corn sun turtle sun orange sun last sun

replaces me the scallops shell day ruined back jesus us a above tè bucket pee ruins clay scene pig meal rise skull rise bird rise chance rise


for M.E.

conjugation you stuck I it matter so speak my

is between and don't exist to in dreams


black sheets sure dark kind fears

skin set strokes os ness rest

I I with words clothes I so going sleep inside scrape walk

can't sleep out like can't sleep much to upstairs chairs doors halls


for Bada Shanren

flying

white

sure falls covers lost look and side far from point stop all naked

snow haphazard everything found up in so away vanishing train we arrive at


not

that

not not not face possess garden cultivate single not not

that beautiful that to like to a idea that that


be

mine

lay close skin fears mind’s or be

so your your your yours may mine


trees down fed go standing in concepts material point tree chip

lay are rest on humor showing not recognizable when becomes


coming

back

from you hair you get possess vision lot out back

where think cut never can't this small scratched coming


wood

lot

what they for bewildered on cut cut cut

do stand anyway whiskers this cheek cheek cheek


roar awakening lumber trucks small bolt off door get stoke look

of to chipper hedge hut chips next lot up fire out


for Alan

it all is pressure cross our savior tub in of disarray covered jetsons here the what future we to

treated of divine empty sheep meadow apparent snow the are for ’que supposed do have fear


as

if

sitting hissing cold some bead string such memory happy what

here fire light logical on of scars of outcome ever


for Natalie

half apples

the now

lover’s heavy

lovers birds

on ground the

the in trees


juxtaposition warm cold renders distinct float asphalt back shap

of and love memory shades above spring wind


for Jimmy

each pot

empty filled

time of was in

remains what pressed it


call

that

not I am in but measured that here

what have having mind mind as from


more last this not I to more is ordinary of and pleasure be

flowers cut is what mean say flowers the abundance mind a to hold


sky

line

company men of limbs range scars sky clouds typed unread of

of pattern tree emotional charcoal paper no confuse over line horizon


post vision side landscape catpretense post breast trees gray night desired poke walk

card road winter strange like or snow’s calligraphic against sky becomes stars through on


for Irene

winter

storm

snow wood

hides pile

carrots still in under

kept good hold ground


dried scarlet purple hard say that what's don't

beans runner black to anything is to go


today

is

sunny cold walking frozen front wood low as life when the start way spare your

peg peg stick at door running politics usual is does fun any please me optimism


for M.E.

shoes are arms hearts eyes as eyes our

eyes are our are other’s in selves


o

Emily

I'd suit foot save boot out me

rather my than my step with tonight


we that written clearly window wood hammock end red trees affront say

write find fails any shows wedge trees of pickup beyond to description


new no cleaner than rained earth bout it mean doubt it in with

hoe hue fresher this on no adoubt I no about I'm love you


magic

show

two lights green black works under vestment peace behind this

flash one one one dove outer emerges seen lines appears


point in

up silence

other longer

no lover

what perfection

eyes casts

only for

human any

reason continue

to


time believed plan any now coy down pers et

I it body plan seems sun pee qui too


first

question

small I I but large be took to be I

as am understand too to distinguished time not small guess

for Hannah

price I print scratched electro gram

code ching out out cardio

we each our

showed other teeth

Joan never

will know


200 copies of for instance were produced by ärt' e fact Publishing, Franconia, NH. Cover illustration by Stephen Dignazio. Design & typesetting by Mary Ellen Russell. ©1992


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