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clogic-192692	Comann, Brad	Six Poems	2020	5	.pdf	application/pdf	857	30	73	Coman: Six Poems Copyright © 1998 by Brad Comann and Cultural Logic, ISSN 1097-3087 Six Poems Brad Comann Buddhas Polyethylene catches on parts of bodies tooled out of pink sandstone, and carts trundle the head-pieces off, to be eyed in a nearby shop, centuries of heads pried, cracked from torsos leaving bent knees behind, smooth as abalone, leaving thin robes folded back revealing one of the shoulders or a wheel etched In those meditating hands--Law of Cause and Effect now a flawed symmetry between walls of brick and mortar--those fingers like thick branches too commonplace for collectors who want instead the faces chipped from prangs expensive beyond belief although undecorated with squares of gold leaf attention saved for the bronze images that survived Burmese troops and the aging sunlight: only one of Him sits in the former temple where a monk trims a votive candle and the One looks immovable, eyelids on the verge of closing on us who surge by the altarpieced fast as the slowest walk, the visitors afterward Comann 2 Copyright © 1998 by Brad Comann and Cultural Logic, ISSN 1097-3087 in the silence of those eyes perceiving our rib cage, our solar plexus, our breathing or does He look for the heat's thought? Station bells chime all-clear Godling, running to a crawl Comann 3 Copyright © 1998 by Brad Comann and Cultural Logic, ISSN 1097-3087 Show of Teeth: Indonesia Follow the signs when the road cuts left.	cache/clogic-192692.pdf	txt/clogic-192692.txt