[To learn what to say to unlearn]
To learn what to say to unlearn
The order of islands here
The number of fingers
made from ideas
certain Bulgaria anywhere
grounds stairway statement
normal nature cases
Visitors from the Dog Star
filling up the house
Words for are and were not
If I knew it it’s what I thought
If I knew it it’s what I thought
If I knew it it’s what I thought
it was
Copyright Credit: Michael Palmer, "[To learn what to say to unlearn]" a part from The Book Against Understanding from The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995. Copyright © 1998 by Michael Palmer. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: The Lion Bridge (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998)