The Word Dog
Does Not Bark
By Jack Galmitz
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White Out
With a white marker Writing snow On rice paper
World Without End
Depressed spring
shoots upward again
To Bounce
Spring
in sneakers
Fresh Haul
Twigs visiting
Gradually
night fishing shades of blue seep through the orbits
Ancestry
Descendent of a star that coexisting
Painting
On an unhinged door a living-room painted left on a lawn
Language Game I
Please bring me a leaf shall it be tooth edged or smooth just make sure its green
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Language Game II
Shown a red patch can I find a poppy field
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Mondrian and Me
Broadway Boogie Woogie I, too, set out on a plane like a shot marble
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Urbanity
Barbed wire curled atop the fence a steeple of tires
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In the passengers manifest Im indexed
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(For Georges Antheil)
Ballet mecanique The garbage truck crunches dusk
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Perspectivism
I arrange you from memories
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New York, New York
Night a memory of footsteps
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The Son of Man
Its raining men with derbies the roofs have pantiles
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Hyper-reality
Watching t.v. three or four times Im turned on by cars
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Its an Oven in Here
Summer night the moon climbs the tenement steps
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Mixing Colors
A startled bird turns the blue to black
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Stop
Tracks in the snow stop
thought itself
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Cityscape
Buildings rise the sky is redesigned
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Wood Panels
Yuteis flock of cranes life-sized and moving Im in it
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After Hours
New York harbor Lady Liberty blood-red in the after hours
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The Garden
In the garden pond frozen the koi suspended
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Shapes
Water: the shape of the bowl holding flowers
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Innocent
Nothing I do can separate me from yougreen hill
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Relativity
Reading a book on distant nebulaethe room grows huge
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Afterimage
Spring snowI see butterflies with my eyes closed
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Similicrum
Real enough to feel a paper rose
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Ancestry II
Impose do not on the blank space that pinioned the burial
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The Taboo
A spark in the manifest includes tallow candles
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Upside Down
A great white Turns belly up The bowels of night
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I #2
Damn the stern
I ride a whale
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Pastoral
Red when eyelids close: sunrise on another world
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The Metaphor
I join the moon to the snow
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Caught
Photograph of the moona trail of astronauts boots and the trash they threw
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The Hawks Beak
A winter night two men slash at each other with brilliant knives
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What it Takes
It takes the rain to see the birch trees dream
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Nothing Special
So leaf holes
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Homage to Color Fields
crusted lichen on cement and brick wall mark rothko
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Greece
The wine dark sea turns orange lichen cling to stones
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On Freud
The primal horde gathers in suits at the civil hall
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Perceptions
Athens white walls through a door carcasses hang on great steel hooks
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Nature I
Two male lions Having sex The hard tawny brush
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Nature II
Two male dolphins stop following the ships wake enjoying sex
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Nature III
The lily In one bed Reproduces itself
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The Pleasure Of
The female mantis savors her mate after making love
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Impressionism
Monet impressions Of a summer day
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City Streets
Loving trees knowing my coffin will be made of these
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Buildings
I do not like trees. I prefer carved foliage Of cathedral corbels
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Northern Song
Bamboo grows wild Wen Tong spent his life painting their forms
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Language Game III
he said I am here he said I am here he said Pauli said no it is not so
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By Augustine
He points to a brick says mattone then motions me to bring it to forward
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Our Lack
Being in public Available to the Gaze I wear mirrored shades
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Additions
Our language is like A village thats added boroughs: Think of quarks, hadrons
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Ludwig
Are words names of things? Wittgenstein said just think: Water! Away! Ow! Help! No!
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Ostensively
He says isnt the Chinese blue under white glaze vase beautiful? I think of the pear shape?
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Walking on Beams
A body of light makes room for a pillar of steel
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Words Cannot Be Destoyed
The embers are doused, But red remains Without the thing named
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Misunderstanding is Possible
Im shown a chess piece, which he calls the King; does he mean its jade?
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