from Nival
Jill Magi

Nival (ni' vel): of or growing in or under snow.

 

 

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A walk into what has eclipsed us.

 

 

Cutwork                               absorbing                          

 

 

“I feel barren”

 

                                                setting up—

 

 

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Fallen into          above.

 

pry

pockets of blue

open—

 

rain                        toward

 

                                                “I did not expect—         

 

 

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Neap tide fossil.

 

Folded stone

 

teasing the boundary of blindness. 

 

 

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From the cell—                 electrical.          

 

 

Retracted, she lost her humor.

 

 

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Spokes light the wheel.  Hub,

a fascicle.  Impulse to collect—

 

                December dream 

a Cooper’s hawk. 

Yesterday, five

buffleheads,

the merganser pair,

swoop of a cormorant

drawing the horizon

                us,

 

 

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Warming—         

                               

                                                                                                enough god—

 

if

 

 

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Concave side of quiet

 

taking rooms out of confines

 

 

                                                                                January enwreathes.

 

 

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potter wasp

 

equipoise

 

hollow-balance

 

“I am nothing                    absolutely.”

 

floating rib

 

story

 

 

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Great black back gull coasting

northeast wind                                 I hold

clouds

 

window                delight

in false. 

 

Wisp to vein to                                 table-sky.

 

 

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Anchor-pulled

 

whorled.

 

Imbricate prayers

 

imagine edges. 

 

 

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Wall-expansion                                after

 

 

                                                grief                       porous.

 

 

(Marginalia sustained the binding.)

 

 

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What is the substance of shadow? 

 

(Atrium of disaster-sense.) 

 

What is between the twenty-second and third hour?

 

(Crux.  Roomage on all sides burns glister—

 

                                temperature spike in the space

between winter and kiln.)

 

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Ideas about curled iron. 

(About is around.)  Month

vines its way

 

capillary bed. 

 

 

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Canyoned water

 

silhouette / tidemark

                                                                (“I am—               )

 

 

mirror  a moiré effect. 

 

 

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Tree of bowls

 

turned

 

                to hold—

 

 

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Arrow-cloud.  

 

Drill bit traces   read “remove/place.”

 

Marital sculpture.

 

 

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required to say

that we came to an amicable agreement.  Truth

on the hinge

                                (              sutured rock, signatures.) 

 

 

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Ivied house.  Endless chatter.

 

Lived house.  Still

 

questions pond in the crook of a mountain, wintered. 

 

 

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opening               inching from

 

 

right to left

 

glass / sky

 

                                                                —unaware, leaning on left to right.

 

 

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A bottle gourd is not round.

A battle ground may be partially.

 

 

My apsis                              your form. 

 

 

(Take away this desperate                           .)

 

 

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Dripstone

 

                                                                                                / mass.