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Joshua Edwards
Later, when those mysterious
words would again possess you,
desire and ideas from yesterday
could cause familiar people
to seem imaginary. The zodiac
was useless, hours were ancient,

memory was just memory.
You began with the thought
to improve what you had made,
but then maybe it would be
better abandoned altogether,
to try and make something new.

So here you are, beginning 
again what you'd once believed
was finished. Present pleasures
anchored in the past, you walk
across a familiar landscape
and arrive at a new mountain,

as if there were such a thing.
Never sad, never powerless,
you are a climber whose form
of joy would go on and ever
upward to murmur strange
opinions into a thinning sky.
from the book THE DOUBLE LAMP OF SOLITUDE / Rising Tide Projects
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Part of an ongoing series of "Lamp" poems (which began with several texts written for a collaboration with the artist Charlotte Moth), "The Lamp of Revision" thinks about how time can lend its weirdness to the already curious process of writing, as subjects and the mind are changed in the moment of reflection.

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