Edric Mesmer
light listing along a shelf , late may
1
network maybe’s labyrin-
thine , but a maze pattern-
like? seren-
dipitous!
what Minos
wrought
Ariadne re-
thought
Theseus
her thesis
2
metadata an ecosystem
full of bloom!
and extinction—
broken links
doublethink
countersink
hyper- inter-
overthink…
how a wave of light
is passage
listing along a shelf
late spring
link
link
3
synced-up solar light
reading
unreading
hoists along its mo-
ted pulley
further pulleys
sync to incandescent light
to “think”
to “[]ink”
’til links tendril like
stand stone
horn blot
4
mirror stage
in
an
un-
lit room , twilight
thinking linkages in
data
strata
of cloud particulate
5
spine
clink
unlinks lavender
rethinks twilight
may e-
ven ink
in nar-
rational
angles ! the
hours
theirs
6
“your hand in mine”
yet
a hand in time
that book in hand
now
held in mine—
with-
in a
sunlit
athenae-
um
Edric Mesmer graduated from SUNY Geneseo and now works as a cataloging librarian for the University at Buffalo’s Poetry Collection. While attending SUNY Geneseo, he was encouraged by librarian Paula Henry to consider pursuing librarianship, for which he remains grateful. He is the editor of the Among the Neighbors pamphlet series on little magazines and small press cultures (currently free by way of inquiry!) and the author of the collection POEMS: now & then (BlazeVOX, 2020).