REUBEN

GELLEY

NEWMAN

<div style="white-space: nowrap;">1. Oliveros</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap;">I have not been listening deeply to deep listening</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.637em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">I have not been listening sleepily to sleep listening Sleep listens</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">to me it is a depth I have yet to sleep</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.637em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.95em;">Screen listens to me electronic malaise</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.625em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">cistern of bright and byte and sight me lying</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.637em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.91em;">sprawled</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.627em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">in the tritone interval of an expanded accordion</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.91em;">expand -ed instru -meant system</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.627em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.95em;">trombone’s vox amplifying in cistern digital</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.637em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 1.48em;">delay tracking circles into the future field</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.627em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">of my ear poem silent</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">as the nonsound of my laptop my brother builds a coliseum</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 2.95em;">outside my city on the seven hills of Rome</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">my brother the captain of a gladiator crew</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.636em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.95em;">flies his ship through</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">the prayer-poem out of space I mean outer space</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">colossal ocean beneath the surface of Mars</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 2.95em;">trillions of water molecules ring silently a deep</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">sleep seep see a drone so constant it is silent</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.91em;">see a boy so floating he is drowning</div><div style="white-space: nowrap;">2. Or is love—</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap;">Deep listening my lover’s breathing</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.95em;">the bed the wishes outside the window whooshing</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">the twenty-eighth floor of a brain synapsed staircase</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.91em;">concrete gray matter the nothingness</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">at the bottom of the trash chute the very real somethingness next</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.95em;">to me is you we’re a poem walking through</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens this rose is named pure poetry</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">inevitably it wilts</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.91em;">though that’s not very romantic is it</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">teasing touch as we wander the cherry</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 11.82em;">blossom esplanade</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.626em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.95em;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">I feel like I’m in a Seurat</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>you say</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">this isn’t</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.95em;">love yet but maybe it’s an anagram</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.91em;">of something love will turn out to be</div><div style="white-space: nowrap;">3. O Rose LIV</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: right; margin-left: auto; width: 100%; padding-right: 1.18em;">The fifty-fourth rose in the summer palace of the third King of Prussia</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">doesn’t exist Sanssouci had no roses only queers</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">Frederick the Great was gay I want to remember him</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">as such</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; text-align: right; margin-left: auto; width: 100%; padding-right: 0.00em;">deep listening to the scrotal folds of this rose eros</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">the riddle fugue old Bach wrote for little Freddy</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">an improvisation on the royal theme</div><div style="white-space: nowrap;">[minor triad leaping down</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">a drastic seventh curving</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.91em;">chromatic descent ]</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 11.82em;">courtly listening</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 8.87em;">velvet viol and prettified flute</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 11.82em;">the way classical sound</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 14.78em;">becomes deep in terms</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 11.82em;">of age in slippage</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 14.78em;">of culture the chapel</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 17.73em;">hall the riddle of</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.636em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 14.78em;">how to play the fugue</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Let the King’s fortunes grow with the lengthening notes</span></div><div style="white-space: nowrap;">4. Or so live</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap;">Like you listen deeply to whatever and however</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">I’m all in favor of ambience say what</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">does deep listening even mean</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">at this point I’m just riffing listening</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">is a kind of improv a riff on the river</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.635em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">Pauline I’m trying to walk with the song</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">into a new place</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">I’m trying to see the sister cistern of the poem</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">his brother and their husband and the polyamorous</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">echoes of myself trying not to wither</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">if I’m a rose in need of love and water</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">if I’m a poem in need of sound</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">boy need of breath across centuries the way Mitski</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">becomes deep when me and my husband are doing better</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.628em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.91em;">or worse in this lifetime,</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">for this lifetime</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.626em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.96em;">I want to do better</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.638em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">I want to be the husband of the song</div>