François Luong

From The Dust Numerals

1.           A spectacle
2.           closing with
3.                     an exhaustion of forms
4. as traces erode
5. the seams of
6.                     a landscape with absent figures
7.                               ::: he left with parts of the city’s autobiography :::
8.           Out of the white
9.           space          the black
10.                     silhouettes of
11.           downtown emerge
12.                     Mourning too was a form of absence
13.                               an unraveling
14.                               under erasure
15.                                         perpetually off its hinges
16.                               ::: the shuttle arrived early          too early          he almost missed it :::
17.                     A semblance
18.                     of the body’s
19.                     displacement
20.           what sings is the drift
21.           through city streets
22.           the store fronts
23.                       and the wharves
24. through Golden Gate Park
25. Yoyogi Park or Vincennes
26.                     it does not matter
27.                               ::: that too was part of her autobiography :::
28.                     What matters
29.           is the unsaid
30.           the white space between words          the signs
31.                    that will remain
32.                               unread          carved
33.                    out of sex and a chimaera
34.                               into the image of a city