Edges & Fray. Danielle Vogel

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      I begin to create these vessels

      foraged for and pressed

      into function

      a book , of string and filament -- /

      a vibrational object upon contact

      this slim branch of text lifting the page

      a thread

      at the back

      of the eye

      / hands

      -- looms

      by friction,

      surface entanglement

      stick-lattice --

      -- grass polygon, loosely-packed ferns, a cup, a

      high mud wall --

      for what will you

      the foraged for

      impulse of arrangement . that’s all I have

      that strange, entangled expanse of one’s own interiority

      the ruby-

      throated

      hummingbird

      starts its nest

      with a disk

      of saliva

      moss . lichen

      then, it’s a matter

      of catching webs

      vegetation / silk

      the density of the loops, aerial

      warping

      threaded through the upper

      periphery

      , and then

      wrap another line

      or maybe the plant wool

      that helps seeds disperse

      on the air --

       felting

      a loosely thatched paragraph

      // an open canopy ---

      to land upon an awkward bale of noise

      where I forage feeling into shape

      into sound; where I am exactly

      a subterranean burrow . arboreal nest . clay flask on a granite rock face . the elf owl roosting in an abandoned woodpecker hole . a dome of moss built on a cliff’s ledge . swiftlet catching nesting materials in flight . fungus garden . self-secretion is a narrative editing process . nuthatch . flycatcher . house wren . flicker . the thrush and titmouse . plant fibers and larval silk . sap and pitch . bowers and tools . mandibles to pulp prey and paper . brood cells . hawthorn . cottonwood . mesquite . birch and the birdhouse

      a soft inner lining of grasses ,

      pushed into a mud cup

      the visible line of mud across her breast as she flies

      an entire sentence crossed

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