(Geometry in) Time
A ruin
In pieces
Falling
Apart
Breaking
Down
Crumbling
This is where it all happened
So long ago
Or tomorrow

(Geometry in) Space
Direction is uncertain
Was I going up or down?
Leaving or joining?
Any point of reference to determine
Cause and direction
Is
Arbitrary
Like
The
Sign

Nero Holes (1973)


This "poetic diptych", published here for the first time, is the last known work of recluse poet Nero Holes, who disappeared in upstate Maryland in 1974. His only published work, the five-part elegy After, after. Burn. (dismissed as a Saussurean S/F debacle), told from the point of view of Cleopatra reincarnated as a supercomputer in the year 2312, treats the same cluster of themes.
A.F. Bytt (red). Taxonomy of Forgotten Poets of the 20th Century. Buffalo; University of West Seneca. 1993. P. 54-55.