began with paper arguments, wipe-away lines crossed at the cardinal x of the low table, the surface
the oily luster that absorbed the cotton-colored catalog light,
began, actually then, with symmetry;
the ragged tour entered a hall of empty pedestals, and it was the end
of evolution, where the molecule-sized Ideal on display rubbed my wallet in my
pocket,
but there was none left to spend, and I folded my hand, turned a corner of relics; then someone
wanted to know the 'use';
in the next room, the restored typewriters from the Disaster tapped atonal measures,
they were repeating my initials;
the nudes had lost their vulnerabilities, the blown-blue demeanor of a basecoat was
the only antiphon of these critics;
I could not forget the rescinded offer of their attachment to me, which hung there also,
and as the session continued, I recognized a thesis, on daylight, and its twin-
the pay-off,
I asked
what is it, is it affirmation, is time behind the answer, a lasting epiphany,
a hot-point revelation, chunks of mortality,
is this for the spectator, at the price of admission,
though also the sense that none cares, fine, but there is
this frieze,
I think my moment was in the skylight room, where as the speaker's voice caught
on the rear walls and held the treble of the small insight,
the cloud's shadows moved over the center of the audience (I thought)
without relation.
26.1: WHITE HOMES
Poetry Editor Kristina Maria DarlingReleased January 2008
Index of Poems
Contributor Notes
Cover Image: Chris Schedel
A brief intermission between the towering edifices (edifii?) of INNOCENCE and EXPERIENCE, Kristina Maria Darling's WHITE HOMES is a collection of prose poems from the USA, featuring works by Elizabeth Willis, G. C. Waldrep, Richard Siken, Mary Ann Samyn, Simone Muench, Sarah Manguso, Richard Greenfield, Robert Gibbons, Joshua Clover and Erin M. Bertram.





