Absence, Rather Than Presence

Patchy, incomplete--
Seen in place of me

De facto underwater:
Submerged by

The hunger of the hungry,
Arrange, range, array--
Laughing.

Look out--looking out:
A lighthouse.

A thing, devoid of space;
Signal fire

Not one of us looking out--
Not one of us a searchlight,

Unseen selves
We are all liable as we go--

Stretch beyond your--amplify;
This this.

What are we saying:
Character this; character that
I am not here.

Apparent;
Well aware

More than a few ways to
Push this;

It's not about one person
Don't make it that.

De facto, underwater
Let someone come about.

Apparent; well aware how no one really comes alive from here.
No traces.

(You pull at me and I push back)

We are falling towards one another
Without a trace.

On the edge and beyond the edge, both.
Ladies and gentlemen;

Built into--
The edge; come out.

Inherent blind spot;
Identifier and the identified, together.

Trouble untrue.
An unseen, seeable

Stretch beyond your--amplify;
This this.