I AM A NATURAL WONDER
not like before the weeds are pulled, there
among other weeds, there along the lines
of bird hops or there goes another
whanger. I am wondering more than impossibly
wondering, more than tooting, yonder
yonder, I won’t go nowhere. I won’t leave
nowhere. I won’t rush away there is to see.
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I Am A Natural Wonder 
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March 9, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Christopher Phelps
This is fabulous. A kind of fleshed-out koan with its birdsong peephole (yonder yonder), its quantifier play (or nowhere-substantialization), and its final line of shorthanded syntax to echo (is it?) the sudden seeing there is to see: the sudden seeing a colon after “away” would have slowed or given away.