bheid
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bheid -- Proto-Indo-European, to split open (as a tree), root of English boat.TRANSCRIPT
bheid
john martone
samuddo / ocean2013
bheidProto-Indo-European, to split open (as a
tree), root of English boat.
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beyond
that tree line —
7
nothing written windblown corn-husk
8
single lane
trestle bridge
9
prairie rivers
ocean currents
10
but when you stop —the wave
11
vulture’s wingspan the width of this road
12
quarry
won’t let you in
not from here
how nothing is
13
the light’s pull-chainsomewhere
14
that book —
sailboatshis unheated room
15
whether to sit on the chair or bed tonight
16
unlit lantern foot of his bed a sailor’s chest
asleep
awakeadrift
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a wolf in yr dream winter comes
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darkness
this body suddenly permeable
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lonely fall
want to talk to those nuns
lamplight
dust on buddha’s head
20
plenty midwest nursing
homes to choose from
21
one cold night yrlantern
22
absurd
as winter grapes you eat them
dreaming
nature
23
forgot to
put the pickaxe away
24
carpenter’s square
lost at sea
straight-edge
hearing winter sparrows
25
plaster-lath —tongue-&-groove —yes — a raft
26
bubble-level
we’re all adrift
tape-measure
yr snail shell
27
out of nowhere thinks of building a boat
this fall nightyou shim a cabinet level
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meditation
a boatthe size of his body
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table-saw
a window on the ocean
30
buddhist psychology
nautical terms
31
seaworthy
splinter
grief
bilge
nut-shellpram
32
in fall
dream of that treecreatures asleep in its roots
33
last night’s dreama small blue boat
fixed yr shack now build a boat
34
autumn rain 3/8ths
sheathing
35
one 4x8sheet 3/8ths
his boat
nothing in life’s water-tight
36
one sheet paper
one sheet plywood
takingyr time
37
building a boat
bound for there
in any case
38
sky
blue
chalk
line
blue chalk lineplucked —that ancient sea
39
fog
his circular saw keeps jamming
handsaw really getting somewhere now
40
sawed the wrong length & his little finger too
41
measure twice
every time
42
plywood cells
boat’sa cell
little finger’s blood cells wet the plywood hull
43
boat building hands get nice & dirty
44
all souls’ day
that tape measure disappears
45
he sands his boat in the mist
46
sand paper
to antici
pate the farshore
seaworthy
caulked his fingers together
47
six-foot boat —
sit on yr knees or cross yr legsor just lie down
48
mother goneyou build yrself a pine-box boat
49
wave-tossed lifeboat in that seaof light
empty
gallonhousepaint can
full of sand
boat anchor
50
his six-foot boat’s a bonsai tree
51
call yr boat
buddha’s name
52
mind
a small boat slipping away
53
pollengrain
at the end
six-footboat
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mother —an open deck
the sea’s horizon rocking
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sit in yr boat
navel’s sea-level
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the prow’s a human meristem
57
— no
no more roots
you’re at sea
58
even a tree’s dead
cellsconductwater
59
his boat
too — beinghollow —
60
the blue green
algae before you
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