Gregg Biglieri

The Orrery

Hyades: a V-shaped cluster of stars in the head of the constellation Taurus held by ancients to indicate rainy weather when they rise with the sun.

1.
Or as he pointed out once
the blue in absolute
an ounce or so left out
or why the clock is veinish.

2.
Aldebaran, literally,
the follower. It does
in the sense that a red star
of the first that is not seen
follows in the eye
the brightest C
a bull's-eye.

3.
The orrery, the orrery, the orrery.
The theory we
twist like clockwork.

4.
Nights inch
like jazz through the pinching
blooms. Night stares back at them
across its thorax.

5.
The plectrum shallows other places
that come clubbed together. Meant or.
It does not wish to invite its own web.

7.
Something in the surf torn under the star.
Horizon like the.

8.
The stallion does not come along the sea.
It stalls before its hooves.
It is the notion of clarity that the riding
carries out and tinkers with.

9.
Hugely intent on hearing
what it is that it thinks thinking is:
Jabs at a bunch of skinny arms.

10.
Something that appears not to exist
does not vanish clearly
like a story.

11.
That does it. The fiat of.

12.
This move meant that the motion of bodies
would seem to conflict with these stars.
as if imparting to the whole arrangement.

13.
As the ocean to a space of time is title
so this period of movement to the system
distorts and extracts a puzzling stem
as if to be estranged from the act of dying.

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Greg Biglieri is a photosensitive poet who has completed numerous as yet unpublished works, including the mammoth *PADS*, a 165 pg. long poem dedicated to the foreshortening of the image in language. He sleeps otherwise in Philadelphia.

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