On Second Thought (20 Answers for José Teodoro)

1.
Yest, as I was driving west on King Ed
through the intersection at Dunbar
in Gladys's Rambler rambled
thought became a "thunk"

2.
I couldn't describe "relaxing"
nor i sit sometimes
"stressful""it"
being an "isness"
a kind of floating referent
just like "there"
and its "arenesses"

3.
If"Memory" really "is a kind of
...renewal" and "change"
is supposed to be at rest,
music at the heart of thinking,
the knock of the name upon the door,
then maybe the liver be a fire
or envy flush, a hand
should be to count on?

4.
The kindling was as wet
as an accomplishment.

5.
Imagine an engine can
take the ra out of "brain"
an instant "bin"

6.
Only beautiful horses
or happy hogs
careful horses
or snappy dogs
ify horses
sniffing for frogs
etcetera

7.
Not so bitter
in a novel
when the protagonist decides
to go on anti-depressants
and goes on to the sudden end
but realizes it's just an ending,
the lyingness of adverbs.

8.
Yes,
my dog isn't so little
but she follows me
any word would another.

9.
For some reason
I would start at a waist,
though I realize now
that's changed with age;
in my twenties
it would have been
the ankles being
whatever wants to be thin
and held.

10. You need a nickel
to play the song
so jimmy the lock
to hear Emily sing
carefully an Oh.

11.
To "illuminate" a point
is like turning a planet
into a metaphor,
ineffable into a fable,
just like single and singing
or the lake wood or metal.

12.
I think it was winter
it was raining
perhaps November
(though maybe January
--it depends)
No, I'm unsure
was it in a boat
a rowboat
a wooden one
summer, then
or late summer
just before
returning to school
you know
that time of year
when belief sets in
but an exact time
is what we want of the spirit
or else it's less than more
which makes it spring
a northern spring
hardly there at all.

13.
skeleton Caribbean
full protection suit
first time or first truth
the word coast
looks back.

14.
Same thing:
8-year old logs
stationary
bike.

16.
Counting.
But I have to make up the question.
Yes, you must become a slave
to your own hand over fist.

17.
Not so strange
you should ask.
I was thinking about it
just yesterday, i.e.
where are my father's ashes?
Stone
would be nice.
Words a'scatter.

18.
And greens.
Bok Choy
after the Salvation Army.
Family matter.
Remember mouth.

19.
Kooteneay Lake.
Creek.
S.
Mouths.

20.
Radio Polanska
doesn't come one
until 4:30
but Deutsche Welle
"s ok. Talk
the twin of
Sleep.

Transcribed as published in Isadora Blue.