Reprise
Lital Khaikin
before the word that is given by knowing
there is an old leaving
dated by the thousand ways
of a hand that clasps a fistful of blindness
to recall: Rephaim guarding
a seeing / in other sight came with a new skin
meat in unmaking
a body that forgot what a flesh is meant to be
the weight of matter
in hands of men that were taught to
break bone into bed [for]getting
to bring a mind back wordless
dripping from under a tongue in rapture
resonance of evening
certainty in air thickens element
as though
flesh may convince itself of world
that is
as though
the weight of men
would contain the madness
the temptation of Prokofiev and the fall
the world broke when men burned moons
into wrists that screamed against surface
recurrence inherits at the opening of things
the measure of memory
is remade into the shape of its fragments
diminishing in the gesture of Yoneda lemma
[in] judgement of sleeping language
that is to be found in rotting fruit
written under tendering surface
mistranslated
the world will still—
in second return, Maitreya fallen to the ground
to reconstruct the infinite.
Lital Khaikin is a writer, editor and curator. She is a contributing editor and writer for continent. journal. She has poetry published in Berfrois, continent., .PLINTH., gobbet and Deluge. She is currently working on her first book, Outplace, and researching into the potentialities of encounter between Butoh and architecture.
