--- D A L E   S M I T H

I've looked through many books
holding names close
that I might see by some weird chant of them
through to me,
the wired root, 
divisible
still. 

Such as I enter
by purchase
deracinated--

The push does come
to shove, to see
as I can, the dizzy black bird
heights. 

No mystery. 
Work at words.
Smithing.
The daily act 
of my common
name.