[The order of islands here]
The order of islands here
If you take it
will I give it back
at two o’clock
Will you hold it
in my hand
And the relation to an eyelid
by the quantity of light
As in
His story’s impossible to read
As in
We’ll see it just in time
whenever we find it
missing
Copyright Credit: Michael Palmer, "[The order of islands here]" 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)