lying together
[in the] Open
is solution
to architecture
bone and stone
conform
briefly
then fall away
[As] the foot
exposed
seldom changes
in appearance,
physical as it is
proper,
water [will] rise
running east and west.
the earth ruind
60 feet
of earth 50 feet
now 5
i see your
surface
all
trim all
wall and form
features I found
in inches
I lie
near perpendicular
and smoke
The rose face
the inner circle
the neck
flush
Outside
the south side I stand
upright
the compass point
coincid[ing] with the universe
pass
over these
ancient acres
the tongue
i am able in early July
to lie down
twenty-four rows of
me
and each one so
broken and weathered
as to require excavation
i found
The buried man
we found
in the presence
of conjectured occupants
trac[ed] upon the
here and now
I scatter ash
in the corner
This seems of some importance
these layers
thes
many dark layers
this drift dark
streak along the earth
i held
a pot
top to bottom
a stone axe
to my face
i held out
without breaking
back back
I [learned
to] take meaning hard
into the cave,
judge it–
It lies.
It is thin.
I appear abruptly
then go.
absence
and nearness to destruction is
[a] most decorative leavetaking
I found purposes of repair
several miles west
farther west
a spring
and another
Converge
then fall
The irregular
court rough ruin
The well dressed are
well preserved
and free
their great concerns longer
and wider [than ours]
before
I was not able to form an opinion
my cattle Brain selected few
broken and weathered
thoughts To Think
Note: This work is an erasure of “A Further Study of Prehistoric Small House Ruins in the San Juan Watershed” by T. Mitchell Prudden.