Peter Larkin

 

Stone Forest, 2

The actual trees are not visible, instead there is surround of forest safer in the time run out of it, soundings of staying a loss in ring. Tree placement depleted in the barrowed coil, completed at the gathered hollow.

 

Face the end of void
socketful, a socket
bound to what the
empty tree commits



True disappearance is mainly incisive hold, around which support gathers, the join-on fossil of weak surround won't smother what the trees were holed-forth towards. Not at all slidable but on all sides of the focal follow a reception.



Socket-bite an
intergrace, trees
copy rock suffix
round their own peril




Where the source-tree is precise local injection, a covenant of provision. Which blocking solely gathered at implant is an entire next generation of platform renovation. Socket residue come upon botched hafting, the condition is allowed to set over low dismounts of vision in plug.



Open-the-sky supports
real vanished tree:
have compassion
on socket compression




The confluence trees train on our daily absence is enormous hub scraping us too. This clamp base gives it unstark according to disappearances, like the fidelity aura that holds to tallest baring, puddles an ultimate rotation.



Teeth of other
sign-lapses planted
in the calling socket


Sockets are from living branches long died into stub. After the tentative shade was ambushed the trees were reduced one whole hold, indelible fixed hush of a rock branding the truth of it. Spoil-trees behave like attractors offered filial rock-tautening. Though the conduction is socket, the flare of dying into place is never counter-traced, however shadeless the concretion, however wrapped the contraction.



Small ossified
delays (propagation)
and reduced rubble
score: aim socket
at target of
bluntest communion




Old branch-core imparts undisplaced erasure: to die in post and then surprise an enwrapment with pure socket projection. Basin-shaped that less than half its dimensions should spell orbital point out of post, the para-absent penetrative tree. Only there do sockets effectively hold the walls of life to this tree passing down a reducible size of belonging to the impact.



Believe in frontal
emptiness unrescinded,
startle its pod marine
pocky with horizon,
parent storm of
repulsed sea




How do I collapse a path within a tree? Crater-refer is buried outward to surface protesting the spine of time through each petrified standing of defeat on its trunk-exact.



Spate is entire
socket spending
tree layer: how
the non-displace-
ment (trunk)
does replace an
entering spot




Because trees were poorly dissolved, emptily embedded in the next relict generation of pitting for an earth at horizon. Not isolated in refugia, but horizoning by non-invasive extraction.



Laid out on
angles of breccia
in a nest
of instruments

ringed colonial
oral, mouth of
no resiting but
disappearing off
an horizon's worth

 

 

Copyright © 2008, Peter Larkin.

Peter Larkin is a librarian at Warwick University. His most recent book, Leaves of Field, was published by Shearsman in 2006. The whole of 'Stone Forest' will appear in his next collection Lessways Least Scarce Among (The Gig, Toronto).