The combined ages of Mary and Ann are 44 years, and Mary is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was half as old as Ann will be when Ann is three times as old as Mary was when Mary was three times as old as Ann. How old is Mary?

and

“yields falsehood when appended to its quotation.” yields falsehood when appended to its quotation.

As a thought experiment, consider:
You have a 97 story building
at your disposal.
You have the power to conjure
any writer into your presence
and the physical power
to overmaster them.
Who would you throw
and from which floor?

dreaming/waking/reading

In a dream, I awake to read.
The story read,
I slept and dreamt the story.
Review:
Formerly dreaming, waking, reading;
then, waking, dreaming, reading.
I must at some point:
reading, dreaming, waking.
So I found another story;
book, < > (J Higgle)
in which a man dreamed
himself awake,
or the suspicion of awake.
With five left, I quit.
You’re tired. I’m tired.
I read my own story,
and fell asleep,
or the suspicion of asleep.

>I Heard It Said
I heard it said there was
a stone in the water and a circle,
and above the water a word
that lays the circle around the stone.

>Again Spasms
eternal, de-eternalized are you
eternalized, uneternal you

>Sonnet XVI (TB)
Into the closed air of the slow
Warmth comes, a slow going down of the Morning Land
She is warm. Into the vast closed air of the slow
Going down of the Morning Land

>Image-Nation 14 (the face
the field of the square inch of the
house of the square foot
the house of the square foot is the
face
the field of the square inch is the
face alive
in the middle of the square inch
the splendour moves
a footstep in the furnace

Contrive a knapsack filled,
carried to the top of a mountain.
Inside is an apple opened
which contains in its core
a knapsack holding a mountain.
Now this is confusing.
There’s an apple below,
a mountain above,
and a core and a knapsack
flanking either side.
Open the knapsack,
this time there’s nothing.
You’re sitting
on top of a mountain
no knapsack, no apple.