The problem is the elsewhere.












called to the voice, to voices





(Truong)
(Derrida)
Il y a là cendre




Percussive breath backbone and ligament




because
Drum Fife Bugle
doused
Là cendre


about
could only ever be




the cinders where Purge is
other


remain
Purge?


(prolepsis)
portends
a purge?


(Chen)


were

It took me long to find the words. I was at a loss for words.


When I am at a loss for words, I do not feel as though it is the words that are lost.
The problem is elsewhere.
The words are there.


When I am at a loss for words, what is my location? Where does loss obtain location? Where is loss locative?


When the words are not lost,
but
I am
at a loss for them, they feel sabulous in the coarse junction between discernment and discrimination.
Sandy but not flaxen
—granular and gravelly, bitter in the mouth, garbled. There are cinders there. Cinders there are.


When I was at a loss for words, I wrote what I heard.


I transcribed the arrivants to a beckoning unheeded for all its trouble.
Unheeded
the beckoning

dowsed
only cinders.


Writing
Purge is an arduous task
an arduous task.


Which is to say
the cinders of the purge
index little
than incineration.

Does a voice
after
a purge?

Better yet:
Which voice
presents
Purge?


U said
 U

The problem is the elsewhere.












called to the voice, to voices





(Truong)
(Derrida)
Il y a là cendre




Percussive breath backbone and ligament




because
Drum Fife Bugle
doused
Là cendre


about
could only ever be




the cinders where Purge is
other


remain
Purge?


(prolepsis)
portends
a purge?


(Chen)


were

It took me long to find the words. I was at a loss for words.


When I am at a loss for words, I do not feel as though it is the words that are lost.
The problem is elsewhere.
The words are there.


When I am at a loss for words, what is my location? Where does loss obtain location? Where is loss locative?


When the words are not lost,
but
I am
at a loss for them, they feel sabulous in the coarse junction between discernment and discrimination.
Sandy but not flaxen
—granular and gravelly, bitter in the mouth, garbled. There are cinders there. Cinders there are.


When I was at a loss for words, I wrote what I heard.


I transcribed the arrivants to a beckoning unheeded for all its trouble.
Unheeded
the beckoning

dowsed
only cinders.


Writing
Purge is an arduous task
an arduous task.


Which is to say
the cinders of the purge
index little
than incineration.

Does a voice
after
a purge?

Better yet:
Which voice
presents
Purge?


U said
 U