Electronic Edition 1.0 copyright 1995 by Hank Lazer
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                             FOUR FOR LARRY EIGNER
                                       


1

from childhood you remember

        not the consecutive

                    his voice emphatic

                    as if it mattered

she seemed there & not

                    and so you to

                              your son

       urging the next

                                    to learn it

                    hawk with squirrel in talons


2

after all the singing faces, you
with your mouths out of sight

among the singing faces you
are walking away having said no

among the turning faces yours
the shadows retiring unto itself

after all the facial arpeggios dip
& descend with your mouths

out of sight pianissimo to
whisper to echoing silence


3

he had now

in no way

had it it

ran though his

hands his mouth

made representations

it was all

along beside

& through & of

he had no toe hold


4

                          there had been these

exact iterations

               in

                        or after an interval

        not the cumulus drama

                   but the indifferentiated

                              or nearly so

                                    gray

                befriending   /   partnering

                                 sudden utterances


Hank Lazer