Marjorie Welish

Backtracking

WRITING in book annotating
NOT-WRITING in book  annotating a state of grace
A time to reap

The index
Not-writing the unsaid  to be found in quotients of
more experienced
incorrigible activity all day. Wait a minute. Problems of mind
From back to front.
An indistinct diet of difficulty  selectively
Pondered in nouns  from a few back pages of alphabetic
pulsations and values
Not quite predicted through strategic belief  astonishing the table
Of contents upfront
Rays and everything

Rewriting a stop
Is a pause such that
It need  not subsist on indemnity from unnamable  care
Hours minutes seconds rewriting the book inside out  rewritten.
Heretofore
The patent went to the thief
Disassembly  of onerous share of fair share arousing Meucci  to our time
To rewrite mere  fame
The erased trust.
May I have a second of your timer? A time to reap  valor and sorrow