a feeling has passed before a charted present

^{I wanted to write a book that was like lying down.
                                                     —Bhanu Kapil}

a feeling has passed before a charted present 
a possibly expired desire 
a replacement of Whitman’s body with his opposite 
a polite vengeance

a presumed minor literature 
a simile not in force 
a yoking of the concrete 
a myth makes

a body subject to forces not legislated to pass over a same 
a memory uncertain about a sentence 
a certain observation of an indefinite object 
a response barely stands

a sentence only to signal an unwritten 
a demand for a law barring its passage and end 
a tapeworm, a pinworm, a hookworm, a threadworm 
a fluke a sentence wants never to end