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Lay Studies - Steven Toussaint
Acknowledgements
THE NEW LAITY
The final poem is praise, but this is the first
transmission, an emergency test
of audience participation in light of recent
unforeseeable events.
In a series of yes or no questions
we will ask you to refresh
your annual commitment . . .
The radio rests
but your neighbourhood remains
a moment longer ringing, property
outperforming silence, whose articulation
and attack need practice
to appreciate, hands immersed in soil
up to your wedding
band, to introduce to all below the things with which
you feel. This is the seminal
trespass, in which the slow eyes of the witness
meet the quick eyes of the reader
and for an instant the pattern is complete
but not foreclosed.
The earth tenders her apprentice.
Listen to her knowledge
age, the groaning of your neighbour’s second garage
going up, the speculator’s
only music. Wasn’t it fraternitas’s fruit you wanted
cordoned off, gauging
each depression with a fingernail, forcing
every germ into the vacant
columns you’d proportioned to goad the berries
big? Or would you dig
a single plot, and pour them in, because
you find it beautiful
that creatures couple up to live? The plant betrays
no atom of a self save
friable tilth, analogies for wealth you cannot speak so
secrete away, now a skill
you know by the way the patterns lace and purl who blew
the glass you see them through.
ACTS
To begin again, the deepest palace must explode
unnoticed. A slow release
will always leave the one who authored you afraid.
That was