The Word Dog

Does Not Bark

By Jack Galmitz
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White Out

With a white marker Writing snow On rice paper

World Without End

Depressed spring

shoots upward again

To Bounce

Spring

in sneakers

Fresh Haul

Twigs visiting

Gradually

night fishing shades of blue seep through the orbits

Ancestry

Descendent of a star that coexisting

Painting

On an unhinged door a living-room painted left on a lawn

Language Game I

Please bring me a leaf shall it be tooth edged or smooth just make sure its green

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Language Game II

Shown a red patch can I find a poppy field

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Mondrian and Me

Broadway Boogie Woogie I, too, set out on a plane like a shot marble

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Urbanity

Barbed wire curled atop the fence a steeple of tires

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In the passengers manifest Im indexed

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(For Georges Antheil)

Ballet mecanique The garbage truck crunches dusk

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Perspectivism

I arrange you from memories

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New York, New York

Night a memory of footsteps

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The Son of Man

Its raining men with derbies the roofs have pantiles

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Hyper-reality

Watching t.v. three or four times Im turned on by cars

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Its an Oven in Here

Summer night the moon climbs the tenement steps

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Mixing Colors

A startled bird turns the blue to black

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Stop

Tracks in the snow stop

thought itself

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Cityscape

Buildings rise the sky is redesigned

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Wood Panels

Yuteis flock of cranes life-sized and moving Im in it

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After Hours

New York harbor Lady Liberty blood-red in the after hours

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The Garden

In the garden pond frozen the koi suspended

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Shapes

Water: the shape of the bowl holding flowers

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Innocent

Nothing I do can separate me from yougreen hill

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Relativity

Reading a book on distant nebulaethe room grows huge

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Afterimage

Spring snowI see butterflies with my eyes closed

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Similicrum

Real enough to feel a paper rose

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Ancestry II

Impose do not on the blank space that pinioned the burial

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The Taboo

A spark in the manifest includes tallow candles

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Upside Down

A great white Turns belly up The bowels of night

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I #2

Damn the stern

I ride a whale

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Pastoral

Red when eyelids close: sunrise on another world

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The Metaphor

I join the moon to the snow

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Caught

Photograph of the moona trail of astronauts boots and the trash they threw

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The Hawks Beak

A winter night two men slash at each other with brilliant knives

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What it Takes

It takes the rain to see the birch trees dream

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Nothing Special

So leaf holes

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Homage to Color Fields

crusted lichen on cement and brick wall mark rothko

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Greece

The wine dark sea turns orange lichen cling to stones

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On Freud

The primal horde gathers in suits at the civil hall

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Perceptions

Athens white walls through a door carcasses hang on great steel hooks

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Nature I

Two male lions Having sex The hard tawny brush

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Nature II

Two male dolphins stop following the ships wake enjoying sex

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Nature III

The lily In one bed Reproduces itself

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The Pleasure Of

The female mantis savors her mate after making love

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Impressionism

Monet impressions Of a summer day

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City Streets

Loving trees knowing my coffin will be made of these

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Buildings

I do not like trees. I prefer carved foliage Of cathedral corbels

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Northern Song

Bamboo grows wild Wen Tong spent his life painting their forms

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Language Game III

he said I am here he said I am here he said Pauli said no it is not so

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By Augustine

He points to a brick says mattone then motions me to bring it to forward

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Our Lack

Being in public Available to the Gaze I wear mirrored shades

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Additions

Our language is like A village thats added boroughs: Think of quarks, hadrons

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Ludwig

Are words names of things? Wittgenstein said just think: Water! Away! Ow! Help! No!

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Ostensively

He says isnt the Chinese blue under white glaze vase beautiful? I think of the pear shape?

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Walking on Beams

A body of light makes room for a pillar of steel

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Words Cannot Be Destoyed

The embers are doused, But red remains Without the thing named

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Misunderstanding is Possible

Im shown a chess piece, which he calls the King; does he mean its jade?

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