Three Palimpsests for Daphne Marlatt by Steven Ross Smith iii.          handful or hillside of geo-                              mantic dirt divines disturbance (stasis: an assumption of soil)                                            thrown soil   radiant   with signs and seams                                            of loosening a random carom-crush of mud, the used-to-be-root-laced-firmament, unthreaded, untethered              dirt, a                      tossed weight                       slumps shoulders                              swathes                   earth, citizens a surround of trees                          leans                                                      teeters with air's and earth's grumble      a stir                                                                                                   (since they are lungs)                                             some tumble some                         stand poised to save (air, soil) from poisonings                                                                                                     as with earth, flesh (some say we invoke, invite our fates)            some stand                                              some     fold       fold-in                                (thanatos) look for                 a sign          a shun                                                                       uncanny short                                                                                    -sighted (sight) this moment      unrooted                  (act!)                   gone in less than a toss, slides            away                         but soil            will lurch                         again   Steven Ross Smith knows a good path when he sees one.

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