Paul Klinger
Way of Way
The available fields were muttered. I will have them muttered. Muttered as if disengaged
from what the imagination of it portends, the estrangement now driving you to this way

of speaking, response occupied in beauty, perished costume, that was done for you, he said.
Ribald figures thumping around, brandied about, no unwieldy, not to be trifled because of

the weight of the material, myth safety, no chance of tumping. Base of the figure rocking
sound demonstration of something known all along. The pattern sinks into the scheme.

Besides, there is the planar aspect, the sliding off lap, the cleft of the rock, the untenable
angles of these places, all these maps turned so light shines through them and spectacles into

predicament. Winking at the demise of them, understanding their reconstruction as a kind
of jarring blow. Extraction actually softens the anterior image, no one speaks,

neck to outcropping head, the beak lichen, holding open the small shadow of the mouth,
inviting concoction upon the sides and rear, nobs through the candelabra.