Senility is attuned to the day's inflections
               outside evening's white gulls roll on endless blue

                              inside: sounds are askew : memory constant television.

Alert, we say: details configure a familiarity; so the line goes on . . . we say

          the thing-in-itself : of-itself, the duplicitous mind stalks pure
                                             conversation: stop (she whispers) listen, everything talks.

Copyright © Sam Sampson, 2006.

Sam Sampson is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and here makes his fourth appearance in the magazine. His works of poetry include: The Deep End (with artist Peter Madden, 2006), and two chapbooks: Encompassed (2003), and Gauguin's Poiësis (1999).