I.
what to make of this blank space :

this white noise : to score it :

to give it some characters : to put

black marks against it : the way

these lines run on : stack up :

stretch out : ranks of peasants

shaking their rakes & forks :

agitated : jostling : is there

a weak point in the defences :

a vulnerability in the lines : some

place we might break through :

into spaciousness : into nothing :


II.
whiteness on whiteness : to pluck

a white rabbit from a white hat :

in the middle of a snowstorm : or

a ptarmigan in its winter morph :

the whites of your eyes shining :

the cat who got the cream : your

mouth opening on a porcelain

smile : & death with a moon in

her pocket : song of the pack-ice :

jingle of the permafrost : an army

camouflaged in bed-sheets :

gnawing ice : marching out to

battle : under a flag of abject white :