Possess

By Duane Locke

To possess
The freedom of fiction the writing
Will be
In the style of documentary realism.

The human mind cannot know facts
So
All
The presentation of a fact
Is the presentation of a marriage.

Hallucinatory dream sequences are appropriated
From midnight confusion, exclusions of syntax
And close-order drills,
                               The presenting of arms
And the standing at rest, other similar
Recriminations.

Both completeness and incompleteness are

Falsi-
Fica-
tions.

Published April 2007