Peter Larkin
from Between Branches, 1
Shutters all that spaces free-file, taken in the between which do not shuttle, no local
focus reduces to meek middling stress clipped to stripe but an open linear overtakes
its weave, the recursive gets to refrain more steeply into plight straight through betweens
of broadening terminals
idyllic enlacement scouts the very brush of sweeping it abyss, what still lurks to miss its
step through the gauze, lesser passage engulfing identical twig tally at a ramified real
tender vacuum forks among dis-solids granted whole pendings of the retention
within the cellules much overlip from chamber but which filter up the scale (in reverse
green wilt) a lending of understood scarcity towards between branches until fed leaks
of its failed stanches
branch to arch low
attenuation pathway,
hollow breaches in-
festing local confluence
let the branches of a
tree do rear-guardedly
its redundant organs
Damaged upright skies with inviolate plant arts, this particular unparched risk cures to a
between: the branch-instant is not in itself ramified
a surplus immediary derives betweening by getting at local openness before a crucial
unriven is given stress of gap among what is always less than its breadth of siteless
release
you go between branch in disparate envelope never in fact fingered by trees: particles
won’t envisage crossing until partitions become nothing hollower than all sides enface
the bifurcation rather than feature into rift
performing diagonals on branch in release whose crossings go to it only on the slant:
these hollows are its horizontals in field degree of nil resistance dis-hasards tuned to
glitches (pitch at fault) between
a slender frontage init-
iation by branching be-
fore the main crick of
an unsurfaced between
Intensive branching focal for gap held out, the allowance is passenger on longest-term
alliance minus absorption back to net but what an entire cosmology can grain from its
filter the branches go far out of pitch as real-space overwhole chasers so long as the
escapement cribs it between
they form an inlet latch of horizon slimming its sinking sun to this eye-upon with
no flicking past generic gap that might be induced to gaze ahead of the between
chinks of a reticulate universal likely to become granular in its gratitude for the co-fear
of a startle-point even more can we be surprised without remainder, without raining
on the between a threnody of encapsulation
no clean passaging
either except a spray
padding out times swollen-
headed at the between
eviction’s fettle got between
branches, not stall-
ing but entailing
Nothing in loop but on brink of awaiting a lace beyond mediation what is flexing
(and flawing) the sinews of divided admittance differentiate by elective gaps that
obstruction might be in no way of of without collapsing back onto solid-branch
material remittance glade in minute stay of dressing a gauze to it
reserve charge rather than thanked resistance but switched on-branch, intermedially the
hollowing bows across the bridge of its stretch
to intersect by infinite reversion locally followed in one impoverished loosening
even more concrete a loss is offered to material selection, where the release should only
overtake on its limits across a vertical
whatever between branch is evasive won’t be materialized by any revised affinity: the
distribution itself was hyperbolic in keeping to one side of suspended origin whose
braiding has now given open pleat to place
back-split branches prove
unarrayed thud is live wood
getting across encelled
into its failure, eyelet
at the heart starlight gauze
animation between acrosses
resorts to no self-suspension
privileging each lacking
If depreciation in green were to multiply off its blades, but those indentations assign a
lane of reserve each time stuttering by lure, these are the consents of spaces of repair
between branches equally sighs the tree
affrontal branching seeks a co-debtor in snatching from gap needs a whole tree make-ready
ready for its differential leaching
really tiny nothings in loop but through to its needle-assent in unhemming the outline of
all these betweens up the very lee of branch-pierced foliage
Peter Larkin is the author of Terrain Seed Scarcity, (Salt, 2001), and Leaves of Field (Shearsman, 2006). A new collection Lessways Least Scarce Among is promised from The Gig. Recent work has appeared in Stride, Blackbox Manifold, Poetry Wales, Quarterly West and New Walk. He has also contributed to The Ground Aslant: an Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011) An interview with Edmund Hardy is available at Intercapillary Space and another has appeared (with Matthew Hall) on Cordite.