Erase the legend:

The Notness Monster
Dies in the lake above the sky

Sampurna Chattarji

You are not my body,
The six year old said to the sexagenarian.

Neither are you, said the goat to the kid,
The wood to the woodpecker,

The stick to the shadow.
You are not my body, love,

Is that why it hurts?

Arrow as plumb line
Wound the depth of the sound

Balance the opposite nerve
Spoke in the wheel

No circle can resist a knife

Sampurna Chattarji

Seed a circular sign in a sky
Field magnetic with felled trees

Giant compass of a leaf
The land of your terrible branching

Picture your head in a metal box
The spire of your breath steepling

You plant two stones on my cheeks
What can grow from a stone?

Sampurna Chattarji

Alencé, Joachim d’: Magnetologia curiosa: Das ist Gründtliche Abhandlung des Magneths [Magnets], in zwey Abtheilungen enthalten; der erste Theil begreifft die Erfahrnuß oder versuchungen, der zweyte aber die Ursachen welche davon kennen gegeben werden. – Mainz: Küchler, 1690. – [4 Bl.], 50 S., 33 Bl.: ill. Taf., Source