Sung-san Hong – from A Phase of Asia

Sung-san Hong

from A Phase of Asia

neither sense nor censor sequence of gutturals renouncing nouns breath/breach the thing about things   they’re so there names don’t stand a chance the spider tunes its thread    spins its song in our mouths you have eyes but do not ear you have see but do not hear instruments of torture set on a table like stage props enter human hands * the understudy    twice removed the repeated resemblance to persons living or dead she doesn’t speak for some time then she says nothing pay attention behind the mask lie layers of asking the hand’s gesture-image still shimmering in space    as trace/trance motes of dust in menacing formation fighting for air time * please de-scribe yourself in one word or less glottis gutted    polyglut the right to remain silent by a margin of majority this is just a phrase not a phase sign here    and here    and here fractured factions of fact act-knowledge the chair says    who has the floor please show him the door * it’s time you crawled out of your ear and tell me the story that ends the way it begins    ends then begins whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be now null me to sleep

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