David Gitin

Air Alphabet


receptacle of the snows
white belly


omphalos
soulworms


traverse
rarefied


air
echoless


ozone life
lightning


spark of cosmos


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Valhalla


children collect
torch lilies wild


in a landscape
one scans for embers


a boat
toward ancestors


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Sinfonia


          for Luciano Berio


from the vortex
a river of words


unstable rhythms
symbols


to supply value
the unnamable


caught in our skins
expelled


sunflowers
sage


gesture
presses


the soul
keep


going
the sail


projects through space
a community


corroded mineral
consciousness alloyed


to mammalian greed
reptilian control


a spiral
module


playing mathematics
to embrace unknowable


life
exaggerated


particulars
aggregate


as truth
mark


the turn
future


where the river appears
to end


curved space
keep


going


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