from _Fragmentary Ekphrases Based On Paintings Made By Monkeys_

“The second half of the 1950s was a golden age for monkey artists.”
—Thierry Lenain, Monkey Painting (1997)

[A white gauche on black paper; by Bozo, a chimpanzee]


To cut the air with
                                    a different axis.

               To say:
mark my words.
    
                                    To say: mirror
me.

          To fly
                              on an
echo,
                  on its folded edge.

To fly

                  forth
                                    on an

earful of symmetry.