You True Communicants?

A MEDIUM TO DOUBTERS

Bill Knott

How can I make you sit
Beneath the clairvoyent's
High table at seance,
And, while her tongue transmits
Some tremulous spirit's
Long-withheld voice in a trance,
Make you tongue her clit,
You true communicants?

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POEM

Bill Knott

The most private part of the clock is the hour,
no, I mean the minute,
or wait, the forever.

The most private part of me is the heart,
no, I mean the nipple,
or wait, the never.

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FLASH

Bill Knott

Photographs -
lightning bolts which,
their shadows having caught up with them,
perish.