down to--fuss by Ossian Foley

down to
epiprophetic of
these wandering abstain
whither
the organism
sex and death
and yet the tortoise










down to
              ghost of
matter

            the dust
idols of mean

mists
         thrice reclaim
among

            them flotsam
tauten
           so









epiprophetic of

the multitude
                      proximate
to to start
                the world that is

anew anew incant
amidst
            the brilliance

that is
           no death only death









these wandering abstain
of wonders daunt
                             nor

convey
             thither trough

sea shores our days
                                neither
crest
         grave yet we recede









whither
              thus at dawn

                                  
echo of
             absence
of

     symptoms, briefly

in here it inheres

and yet the tortoise









the organism
the single self
spans life spans
tho’ senescence
always conceiving









sex and death

toward a heaven

no wonder










and yet the tortoise

echoes
           the ghost of us

echoes
           the mortal fuss