from "Writing is an Aid to Memory" by Lyn Hejinian

I.

apple is shot nod

                         ness seen know it around saying

                                     think for a hundred years

   but and perhaps utter errors direct the point to a meadow

                                 rank fissure up on the pit

arts are several branches of life

                     little more science is brought where great

                         need is required

                           out becomes a bridge of that name

                in the painting is a great improvement

   bit ink up on the human race

and return if the foot goes back

              in the trunks of trees behoove a living thing

                                       wedge war common saw

           hard by that length of time the great demand is

                                    very dear

ashes in water

                                 that might be a slip of architecture

                                 think was reduced to an improper size

   blocks to interest who can visit

                                         variations on ideas are now full

                             problems

           from a point of increasing

at only as to four or we who nine

a little grace familiar with simple limbs and the sudden

                                reverse



Source of the text - Lyn Hejinian, Writing is an Aid to Memory.  Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1978.

TJB:  High strung—composed at phrase-level, stripped of connective tissue, metaphors mixed, shot through with unresolved tension, & a tree-meadow motif.