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CYBERTRY - Part III
Werner Reichhold
Twelve Poems


Table of Contents

In search of
A poetry reading
For two
This is a preface
Eastward morning
Preceding profile
Service
Heat-blurred contour
Masking autumn
Away to
Control, but
Installation of a fable

In search of


.....................traveling in sound territories. Each parcel
.....................wears a mask to find new contacts.
.....................It can happen behind a subway window
.....................or under the cathedrals' blue rosette in Chartres.


We imagine that such waves of a journey return
.....................night light the sea has a weaver moon-moved.


Advice not settled means more time is needed until
.....................exchange can take place. The more separation
.....................the more will be invested for understanding.


As long as the code of meaning is kept unknown,
......................the partner enjoys confusion. Out of this
......................demanding concept nervousness begins to trace
......................areas of identity.


Negligently for a map showing a path to get closer, we would
......................like to bend a finger, start all over, call it the joy,
......................the concentrated effort in search for a new game,
......................the purpose purblind persuaded


.......................black eyes side by side one sleeps, one is awake
......................dominos.






A poetry reading


Attention of the audience is so intense
......................a cat feeling too alone leaves the room.


With the heat of listeners expanding, trapped vowels
......................cross a nomadic thought. On the wall,
......................dust and the virulence of words
......................partly swallowed finding shelter. During
......................a collision of tongue and teeth, relations
......................of sleep, thieves and silence light up.


one ant, unimpressed, finds a way along neighbor's
......................Leg hair. Passing columns of a temple,
......................the block of speech is leaving a gate.
......................Close to learning, confidential swings
......................adopt each other.


Into whose space intruding, a sentence feels at home?

Wind in pine needles take over the interior of pending wishes.



For two


in which motion along the gaff? there 's the veil
..................... of a siren, rope, back-winds.
..................... The spinnaker has it to come coming to be blown.
......................A sea-launched skirt, it reddens the foresail.


Premonition forgetfulness? Chill in the Y of a seaman's
......................fish-hunting fork. That hungry? Egg-clouds depart,
......................they lull a luminous language into caverns.
.....................Through a minimum of echoes one hears
......................the Electric ray, resembling a book mark. The quotable
......................mark, the smudge carries the picture of a hard palate.


Probably the obscurity of getting across to a neighbor
.....................determined to make a swing meeting both halves.



This is a preface

all following lines are prefaces
12 o'clock pm outside the window moth wings beat.
.................................Since half an hour you're part of it
.................................dreaming.


The quiet breath shows there isn't more to be wished for.
................................Growth seems to be controlled, seems to be.
................................Immune cells respond strongly before
................................getting consumed.


Day time savings One hour less you say.
................................May I don't interfere in places where
................................hands of my watch hold on to?


Early today we feel the spoons' loss of shine
................................in our mouths. On the knife's side
................................toward you dried blood darkens, hardens.


A morning dove comes by, lands and shades two bricks.
................................Since we avoid looking at each other
................................the dove stops cooing.





Eastward morning


may not where known but stranding.
.....................The vanguard washes away the vanishing point.
.....................It's a pretense, aflutter, not a aforementioned
.....................in a space where one can hear the hiss of a viper
.....................tamed through neurosurgery.


That much of a split tongue scored off.


Moon-blue and tulip tree, both shaken. Moves occur
.....................without fear, coming closer appointed restless.
.....................Nearly a rare anxiousness, one dares to call it back
.....................into a February-attached room.
.....................There, the sleeper is held hostage, prolonging
.....................the minute absence defines itself.


Fermentation under a tent of almost awakening; even the former
.....................pervasive way of viewing aloneness performs with
.....................a companionable dream-segment. It may have
.....................the strength of a cello string, tightened from the snail
.....................to the bridge; in between a long armed bow.


Darkness dismisses its prevalence- eastward? Morning,
....................the uplift with a nuance in behalf of resigning
....................Breakfast including oatmeal, then the vulnerable
....................two egg yolks.


Lost later found
....................near the train
....................the pocket-mirror
................... I turn it twice
....................my picture but not hers.



Preceding profile


in the house of magnets the coil relates to the copper wire.
..................................Rapprochement, winding ? No, electrified
..................................the heat of July returns.


The foreground shows a resident mowing. The indentation
..................................indicts a tame dear passed.
..................................Rankness leaving a subject, annoyed.
..................................I abstain.


Neighbors ransack moist places for the taste of rubbery fibers.
..................................A fly , sensing white spots on a red pillows
..................................traces the thirst of its own.

One system and such immortal sacrifices to the color
..................................of give-away. Whose power is going
................................. to compete? Curves in the shade
..................................of affection differ; they lean on preceding
..................................confirmations, given, not installed.
..................................Their profile resembles a move under water.

Stability is held by two different weights in correspondence:
..................................one uplifting, the other to be lifted into
..................................a gallery of proportional light.


On craters earth shine flooding the moon;
..................................can some of it become mating?


One hole seems to laugh at the beach of Copa Cabana;
................................. there, tiny textiles communicate
..................................each others cells.


A shark tattoos a mannequin, in good faith continuing
................................. competitive tense. Here we're in convertible
..................................vacation-mood; copper tone wrinkles
..................................resemble a mummy's centuries.



Service
................secondary by aperture but how
................dependent on a fold-up tripod.
.................Flirtation, mercurial, lightning-like flashes.
.............. I use a delayed-action shutter release.


Clouds cover half of the Montblanc. Moving
.................sheep wool and the beard of a Swiss
.................wood cutter stay countable hair by hair.

January his hard time. Kids to raise.
Those mon Dieux, would be first grade material,
.................could defend half of the country.
.................On leather shorts, hail clicks.


There are satellite-taken pictures. After the cobalt-blast
..................the landscape resources will stay unchanged;
..................they say, a local population that does not
..................give in to serve more cheese
..................or secret bank account numbers


can / will, Monsignore, be endangered.




Heat-blurred contour


lengthwise the parachutist jumps along the security-line.
.....................There seems to be a little more than sports
......................going on in the desert.


Sensing a taped prayer, vocal cords sound not quite
......................natural to the Sheik's falcon, freed to catch pheasants.
......................Are the birds opinionated about prey, similar to
......................the well trained parachutists?
......................Occasionally itches? proving entertainment
......................of other materials, a cry of crashing glass emerges.
.......................From a cock's throat phasing out pure yellow.
......................The gun is up the huntswoman's two hundred
......................pellets circle the air.


Autumn umbra and mauve explore heat-blurred contours
......................of a lately accomplished Mercedes. Is this the new comfort?
......................She gets a ride besides the conqueror.


Steel noses drill oil into pipelines, the upper end burning gases.


Torchlight or is this the minaret on fire? A licking hortative hint
......................pampers the eye. Cross-questions play the thirsty mind.



Masking autumn


Pumpkin pillow Halloween rolls its desire
...........................like a sea-soup to the shore.


The esophagus obviously works as an elevator,
............................sweets occasionally get stuck.
............................Addictive licks - could this brown
............................chocolate be a skin wanting more to melt?


Ingrained wishes knocking on one door, then on the next,
.............................neighborly, neediness a habit. The gender
.............................libertine. Noon, when it occurs organized
.............................waiting for a long evening.


Such a bottling of grimaces on screen; one would think
.............................one's own mask alone should do it equally.
..............................Stockings hide a face - my friend?
..............................is the shooting real or do we watch TV?


Flashing red a cop's breathalyzer keeps Daddy away from
..............................coming home in time that night. The ghosts
..............................of autumn are in search for spirits.
..............................Something takes aim, inhabited, antedating;
..............................fruit-strings break the slime the yellow seed.




Away to


.............. the unsettled, the ironing of one of my
...............white shirts to go out meeting swans.
...............A half-attached commitment, the tie
...............balks some sprinkled-over violets
...............breaking off and revolting against edges
...............seen from others as the collar.


Near the river, we foreign guests
...............gather under and above the bridge
...............au Quai du Louvre. There, on Sunday
...............a painter's easel leans on the hand rail.


Today his Seine becomes a charmer on hold.
...............Swans emerging as if they wanted to appear
...............as white spaces left empty in a watercolor,
...............enciphered while they themselves are flying further


to a not yet chosen unattached commitment
............... on their softest own.




Control, but


lead along? Languor, is this where the pencil goes
.....................on late afternoons for wiggle line-work
.....................or is it the papers own decision-making
.....................how much white is decided to stay white
.....................during a graphic's gray deception?

Debarkation relentlessly accuses me
.....................having the picture in mind not under control.


Relevant information creeps into the finger's muscle
......................for whatever acceptable partnership.
......................Pure remembrance is in a stage of giving up
......................credulity. Something knowable, imaginable
......................becomes familiar during an upgrading
......................mathematical process between constellations.


Wittgenstein gave in after Lucretius' simpler annotations
......................to what can be drawn and hidden
......................into the cards during a twilight hour.


Is virgin-wool the warmest cover, does the tomcat follow
......................only her? Are the two pounds of asparagus
......................soft as what is wished for?



Installation of a fable

how long not be willing?
................................Why does her letter return
................................when hay feels stuck in yellow?
................................Of whose behest and dozens
................................and duplications, and departure


on the hillside the upper part of a horse appears arching
................................close to me until the appearance
................................of its full size destabilizes the color of my skin.


Luck of power? do the ongoing leaps evaluate voices
.................................in favor to the listener? The assault course shrinks.
.................................Foreseeable steps follow the unforeseeable
.................................with a bug on its disc.


The foretold becomes unreadable, the truly readable
................................is already accepted. Let's say it is in the face
................................of a car's rear mirror: eye lids down to a long skirt,
................................the pattern fading along with its folds.


On the throat less exaltation. Several questions converge,
................................some evasively. The gallery we feel driven to shows


Installation of a fable: on 36 screens, mythical creatures carry
................................a twelve foot gong close to a white mammoth;
................................on its forehead, soft curled hair covers the number
................................of centuries it run through.

Cybertry Part III
Copyright © 1998 by Werner Reichhold
AHA Books
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