Samuel Webster

Leaving Home I: he has become beyond insignificance beyond preposition when all has grown and left, what is left? a moniker for all and none, his words float through shadows and nestle quietly on dormant tongues. waiting for their song is he not a bird this infamous he this failure of commitment his dreamwords fall upon painted lips and chalkboard wings II: beneath a nation of silenced tongues he scratches like a chook in paydirt fluttering under stray dust to mask the frantic movement is he not the true shadow of adolescence the infamy of twenty years short lived III: youth arches his neck and gazes (old age puts wire) towards the sky his claws loos(fences to hold)ening from the ground (youth to the ground) his knees buckle his scales creep up to heartstrings and pull (pull him) him down to earth (closer to their hearts) there are no fences (and fail) in the sky IV: scrtchscrtchscrtch flt flit flt the last trace of dust leaves his wings, fluttering and bending with the wind, his back forfeits against currents of reticence flt flit flt scrtchscrtchscrtch Rationale: The Leaving Home Transcription is based on poetic experiments, posted publicly to the poneme list, by Jake Ginsberg and relies on the following compositional rules to continue the transcription deconstruction: 1. Each part must exploit a different poetic form, however subtly 2. Each part must be a further deconstruction/transcription of the one preceding it.