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g<br />
Jason Lytollis<br />
James Lloyd
‘g’<br />
The extra bight and bar above the door,<br />
supernumerary. A sign hidden<br />
in plain sight. Silent tell,<br />
its traces gnomic,<br />
an orthographic sleight.
God watches<br />
Nonconformists’ quiet plights, His sons<br />
and daughters huddled in the meeting<br />
house.
Stars’ nightly alignments are freighted with sighs;<br />
I hold a northern girl tight,<br />
we weigh together, buckling lightly.
In the peace garden<br />
remembering lives lost<br />
or blighted by fighting,<br />
snowdrops and trilliums push.
While words flex<br />
like a property of light,<br />
ghosting and gone,<br />
hold sounds in breath’s infold<br />
before their jump and flap and flight.
And a poet thinks<br />
of a vent act’s glut of velar stops,<br />
all geegee ‘gotalling’ together,<br />
has troubling dreams<br />
of futures resigned<br />
to shortening reigns and<br />
lengthening lines.