IT HAS THEM WITHIN ITSELF AS AN IMAGE IN A MIRROR
GINA FRANCO
nature of the hour:
the line marks the wound
in the art of the frame: first things make
second
things, then minutely, last things and
no-longer-things: this be/coming
the unseen, the shadowland
threat by way of remove,
this infinite
regress from the center towards the darkening exterior
that marks further and further the outsider in
the mirror
of the border: for that is the dream of the frame:
home/coming
for some
but not every: you with but not among
us: give
us this our:
(in the feed in
the applications in the windows of the cell
phone, images light their mirrors: drawn
in the same thick dark
marker: a kid scrawled grid
—the fence | the foreground—
slashing up scant stuff in the otherwise bare room: a toilet:
the still
at the time said
children: a door: [locked more often than not])
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