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Signature The pen misses on the upstroke and scores the paper. A generous hand taking up a lot of space. Likewise the setting's large point size, lacunae. Meaning sinks in like drops from a sudden shower ink on blotting paper, bleeds into the air the reader breathes plummets in the body's wellspring the 'void eternally generative'. The poet sits in an adjacent chair shirt unbuttoned to hoary abdomen his recitation oratorial conversational; silent spoken songs. The sun comes out in the garden cat crawls on its belly over baked clay sods betweeen agapanthus and montbretia luminescent waist-high seedheads. This is the signature, this his presence this is how the ink flowed this is where it missed and scored the paper like a hung nail. Copy number 66 in an edition of 1626 at latitude 43o 32' south, longitude 172o 32' east — George Oppen was here.
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