from "19 Sets of Instructions for Movement Games for One or More Players Which Can Also Be a Commentary Track to the Movie '2001: A Space Odyssey': Poems" by Jon Woodward

For a large crowd. Blink butbe motionless, silent.Carry one of you offin zero gravity.Your longtime friend & collaboratordisappears into the distance.Clunky, cumbersome, ill-fitting,never not isometric, never not the floating world.Exceptthe voice coming from everywhere. ~~~~~ For three players: when one shuts down the voiceanother voice emerges. Eventually they all emergeno questions asked—electronically manipulatedhistoricity static-clung to the panning camera's pantrying to jerk it backwards in time.No motion to the voicesbut a multivalent, tumbling symbolismout of & toward view,and by this point the gamehas expanded to twelve or more players,simple photocopieswith no eye, burning toward& out& out.No idea. Well, some.But you're on your own, you. ~~~~~ An old man lying in a bedwhere the veins are,which never reappear.Against a backdrop of sunspotsand unseeing eyes and planets, dewdrops, eyes and dewdrops,a creationof the MGM model shopto light the iris of the cosmos.For two players. Jon Woodward's books are Uncanny Valley (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), Rain (Wave Books), and Mister Goodbye Easter Island (Alice James Books). He lives in Boston with his wife, poet and pianist Oni Buchanan, and he works at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.