there.

 

Joel Chace

from Scaffold

 

grid                       of failure                                  (of) goodness


speaking builds it                       witness                       song

 

 

welt and welfare                       stiffening                       stay


and what(ness)                                      with its long embrace (–)

 

 

itch                    dough                     scratch                       buck and moan


homing                               jowl                             labor’s seam

 

 

place(s)                       (—)                       placed                       beside the points


where branching makes                                                         its claim

 

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