Lossiness

.

I come upon a new word, lossiness,
which is so fine the way it slips through lips
and sums a feeling up

to be lossy:

to have kissed-off the past

to become apophatic in a small sense

to not define one’s self by what’s left in the dust
as we move along regardless

which is as close to impossible
as kissing-off the future
while still breathing

but yet . . . lossiness
—ah! lossiness,

its tug

by Jim Culleny
4/19/13, 7/27,22