Mark DuCharme, "The Unfinished"

Mark DuCharme

The Unfinished

The ghost-buildings are still here

We don’t know a way to address them

They stare at us yes really stare

They will never go away

To go away, at the onset of speech

To stare with ghost-window-eyes

To be truly naked in the telling

Or speak, at the onset of being dreamed

If you dream. If you speak. If you

Enter ghost-space (language is a ghost)

The space of the story that you weave

To enter or depart

Depart in hunger of words apparitionally

In economies of having been seen

Depart in violent day-rhythm lurking

While mislaying the proportions of the shadows of the bees

The Unfinished

The scar is what we imagine it

To be. The light goes scarcely

Through wind. When you sear

Or scare, you can disappear

Into wind in a parallel

Motion to its

Trace. The plan is to seed

In bloom of thought

Embedded. That’s not true; you are

Embodied, &

The thought is you. Appear then

In necessities of sight, &

Move as love, into darkening light.

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Mark DuCharme’s newest book of poetry is Answer (BlazeVOX, 2011).  His previous print books include The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVOX, 2007), Infinity Subsections (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2004) and Cosmopolitan Tremble (Pavement Saw, 2002).  The Found Titles Project was published electronically in 2009 by Ahadada (www.ahadadabooks.com).  The latest of his many chapbooks is The Crowd Poems  (Potato Clock Editions, 2007).  In 2008 he began a writing project called The Unfinished, parts of which have appeared in Blue & Yellow Dog, Colorado Review, Eleven Eleven, Eratio, New American Writing, Poets for Living Waters, Or, Otoliths, Pinstripe Fedora, Raft and Word for/Word.  He lives, works in and teaches near Boulder, Colorado, and has recently launched a Web site: http://mark-ducharme.com/

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RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture, http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1938-3592, Volume 5 (2011): Disappearance