Louise Akers–Cusp

LOUISE AKERS

CUSP

 

there is little gentle 

about administration:

 

the clanging

 

and un-clanging 

of more portable shells

 

along indistinct 

currents. the feeling

 

of the involuntary 

shift from cusp to

  

inseason concatenates 

expressions—un-static

 

feelings—and the mood

 

of nearly anthropological regret.

and yet

 

i’m reminded

of an earlier, prohibitive

 

clause: lack of experience,

a strict and oppositional

 

salvo

of desire…

 

the transitive gaps—

un-rushing intervals

 

like apertures—suggest

that some elements

 

ought not be resisted

but endured

 

and endured to the point

of reeling,

 

independent pleasure.