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TWO POEMS
by Shannon Holman


Self-Portrait as Richard Long

A southwesterly walk from 30th and Madison to 23rd and Fifth Avenue thinking
        of data streams.
A dogleg from 23rd and Fifth Avenue to 20th and Broadway thinking of
        Heraclitus.
A backtrack from 20th and Broadway to 23rd and Broadway thinking of
        love.
A southeasterly walk from 23rd and Broadway to Union Square thinking of
        what it turns into.
A subway ride from Union Square to Montrose Avenue thinking of steel
       drummers, the export of tab-delimited numbers, heroin, property values,
       pattern language, Star Trek Voyager, sub-atomic particles, the banjo,
       traveling under water through a dark tunnel, love, what it turns into,
       love.

Self-Portrait as a Dictionary of Symbols

abandoned mine shaft
all types of waves
almost clear sky
appliance and grounding

basic design for fortresses
beginnings and maxima
binary system
brightness control
burning of gold to powder
button for switching on or off

calming salt
circle, very small
contact between the lower and the higher
continuously increasing variable

dwelling place

Empire of the Middle
excluded material that should be filled in

flask, bottle, or recipient that is not transparent
fruit trees in the garden

good place to enter
graphic model of a theory

highest permitted speed

interior of a building
invention of the wheel

jealousy

king is dead and the game over

ladder of transmigration

moment of impact
most perfect number
music in general

nervous system
no bottom reached with sounding
note above, note below, note itself

once cultivated but now wild growing plant
output
oxygen principle

pause for all parts

quaver
quicklime

rain that does not reach the ground
relentless natural forces
resistance

salt

tone that has a specific length
transformer
traveled away at high speed

unspecified danger

we have already been here
which is true of all possible facts

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