This World Is Not Conclusion
When I look out your window I see another window
I see a wedding in my brain, a stylus and a groove
a voice waving there
When I look out your window I see another window
these trees are not real they grow out of air
they fell like dust they fell
So singing is seeing and vision is music
I saw diadems and crowns, daisies and bees, ribbons, robins,
and disks of snow
sprung effects in pencil-light
When I look out your window I see another window
I see a fire and a girl, crimson hair and hazel eyes
a public in the sky
When the world comes back it will be recorded sound
that cooing shrub will be known as dickinson
the syllabic, fricative, percussive, and phatic will tear open
Out your window I see another window
I see a funeral in the air I see alabaster space
I read circumference there
Credit
"This World Is Not Conclusion" from Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press, 2016) by Peter Gizzi. Used with permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Author
Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi was born in 1959 and grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press, 2016).
Date Published: 2016-10-01
Source URL: https://poets.org/poem/world-not-conclusion