Ron Singer

Modern Imagination To Sing


1.

From swirling mist yellow vapor gleam of thought comes idea germ glimmer of perhaps

but set down this set down that in spike-sharp print twelve-point font starkly black boldly white

idea only on its face crystalline but idea still just idea only that no more

looked closely at letters edges start to blur the words all words lose their sense crystal sense tensile once their once intense

melting now dissolving down into muddle melt I say mirror less their less than surely less than work yes than work

their less than crystal less than germ in gleaming yellow mist.

2.

Not that the mind is really shattered glass is shattered glass is splintered really splintered really shattered

the mind not really really not except in cases looked at really

one single image in a glass dark old image seen as fallen fallen on the road

fallen frothing picked up sent sent as message sent as special message sent

who was he no who were they special messengers

tongues in air twitching fire news good news yes thrilling news trilling fire in the ozone through the ozone news

sent down straight down to Corinth down down to city wealthy city city weighted weighted freighted city city fraught with pelf

perfidy oh perfidy

weighted polis weight of pelf sybaritic self.

3.

Yes fetched up message messenger etched on tables half this egg this egg dome yes half this egg dome egg dome world

millennia pass yes just two two till now the images

images the images the dark and clear images

oh no no no no not that no no no no not that

now flotsam jetsam heckle jeckle up on film washed up on film on paper too

in stone in metal etched in metal metal etched in metal

old avant image maker painter painter painter oh film maker

Daguerre Daguerre hundred years over over cellulose

a century two millennia.

4.

Spirals spirals winding spirals spirals winding spirals

blur and fade blur and fade in and out out and in out and out

we as they call us all of us actors clutching clutching heads

actors clutching brains

crystalline kissing craft camera craft

craft of camera single image is

melodrama cerebrum

clutching all

clutching all of this.