Floating Signifier

Events float without roots

Detached.

I apply logic of the past on

Today’s effect

Context too evaporates

Amnesiac calendars

Catalogue seasons together

All the years fit into

A single refrain

Stuck on a record player

Memory dwells

Like a parasite

Forgetfulness does not oblige

A name rules all

And lays claim to other nests

Confused grammar fails

The test of tense

Desperate scissors

Fumble with the cellophane

A needle pokes the inflamed gum

Searching for that numbing pain

Wistful parchments step into water

Hoping to dissipate

But everything continues to form

A palimpsestic mass

Where the December wind

Blows in a dawn of March

(Like sand it runs through fingers

Like sand it washes away

But always comes back

To claim the shore

As its own resting place)