by Peter Gizzi

If love if then if now if the flowers of if the conditional

if of arrows the condition of if

if to say light to inhabit light if to speak if to live, so

if to say it is you if love is if your form is if your waist that

pictures the fluted stem if lavender

if in this field

if I were to say hummingbird it might behave as an

adjective here

if not if the heart's a flutter if nerves map a city if a city

on fire

if I say myself am I saying myself (if in this instant) as if

the object of your gaze if in a sentence about love you might

write if one day if you would, so

if to say myself if in this instance if to speak as

another-

if only to render if in time and accept if to live now as if

di百度競價推廣bodied from the actual handwritten letters m-y-s-e-l-f

if a creature if what you say if only to embroider-a

city that overtakes the city I write