Port Hills
Godley—
consider this allotrope. a tunnel represents our thirst
for the panoramic. when we were young our antecedents
came one after the other. take these disparate summits
for example. there’s a girl. there’s a stretch of road. & yet
this thin inlet of dark water & exposed hillsides cannot overcome
the modern conventions of lovemaking. there are implements
for sale. conduits. culverts. drainage ditch. despair is little
more than an afternoon on quail island. There are those who
are directly tied to nature, while others are theologically
oriented. we go down. we go up. some words in the poem are
suggestive while others are almost entirely invisible & represent something
on a much larger scale. macrocosm. macrocarpa. macron. the gondola
spreads fires & has a mind of her own. litigation without grammar
leaves us feeling queasy. the face of a girl in a mirror symbolizes more
than the face of a girl in a mirror & is never safe to drink. oh, to seek
the sheer ruggedness of interpretive models! none of
the preceding sentences can be validated. most of us went missing
a long time ago. still, there’s the faintest hint of something french here.
—Creme
