I do not want to be1
a female
impersonator:2
the part is sick of
representing the whole.3
“Who
are you anyway?”4
took a little tabula
rasa with her caffeine—5
me,
as ever, gone6
to be
beautiful…enough for someone to want.7
Can you make a
double negative of8
our physicality…?9
It is important not
to be fooled10
[by] a heretic’s
mirror for the true story11
no matter how many
pages you eat,12
but it’s also true
that you can’t really know until it’s13
one of many dull
aches.14
The process wobbles
wildly and accelerates.15
there is no need for
this—16
[a] body of flaws17
disguises the18
shapes the
shapelessness was taking back.19
a world of bone seen
through to!20
continue: we’ll
discover where you sweat.21
We sleep together in
the dark—22
(default position,23
trying
to become one creature)24
it
disguises the kissing and makes us less sad—25
but confuse26
equal opportunity27
with love.28
does
it follow that the sleep of monsters produces reason?29
a
boy just like you took me out to see them30
and
he wanders among strangers all he wants31
marking
a stillness we can’t keep,32
finding
all of the stops.33
There are moments in
our lives which, threaded, give us heaven34
Unbodied!35
because we never
existed inside time,36
its pale and
inconclusive utterances—37
Are
you still there for me in that dark?38
Empty rooms love the
dark,39
made you glad for
beauty like that, casual and intense—40
the
more-than-you-bargained-for surprise of it41
most
delicate of manias,42
until the sound of
the cataracts grows.43
The key to
tranquility is44
—rule of the mad—45
(to
yell is the rule here)46
Any simple problem
can be made insoluble;47
water seeks its own
level.48
Attention
wanes,49
even
in a fish tank.50
1
Carson, “Stanzas, Sections, Seductions”
2
Carson, “Stanzas, Sections, Seductions”
3
Armantrout, “Own”
4
Armantrout, “Wannabe”
5
CD Wright, “One with Others”
6
Carson, “Despite Her Pain, Another Day”
7
Armantrout, “Later”
8
Carson, “Totality: the Colour of Eclipse”
9
Carson, “Decreation”
10
Carson, “Decreation”
11
Carson, “Decreation”
12
Carson, “Decreation”
13
Armantrout, “On Your Way”
14
Armantrout, “Minimum Sum”
15
Hass, “Misery and Splendor”
16
Hass, “Late Spring”
17
Graham, “Two Paintings by Gustav Klimt”
18
Carson, “The Day Antonioni Came to the Asylum”
19
Graham, “What the End is For”
20
Graham, “San Sepolcro”
21
Carson, “Aria of Last Cherries”
22
Armantrout, “The Light”
23
Armantrout, “Just”
24
Hass, “Misery and Splendor”
25
Carson, “The Day Antonioni Came to the Asylum”
26
Armantrout, “The Light”
27
CD Wright, “One with Others”
28
Armantrout, “The Light”
29
CD Wright, “One with Others”
30
Graham, “What the End is For”
31
Hass, “The Apple Trees at Olema”
32
Graham, “Over and Over Stitch”
33
Graham, “San Sepolchro”
34
Graham, “Over and Over Stitch”
35
Graham, “What the End is For”
36
Hass, “Then Time”
37
Graham, “Over and Over Stitch”
38
Graham, “What the End is For”
39
CD Wright, “One with Others”
40
Hass, “Spring Rain”
41
Hass, “On Squaw Peak”
42
Graham, “Over and Over Stitch”
43
Graham, “What the End is For”
44
CD Wright, “One with Others”
45
Carson, “The Day Antonioni Came to the Asylum”
46
Carson, “The Day Antonioni Came to the Asylum”
47
CD Wright, “One with Others”
48
CD Wright, “One with Others”
49
Armantrout, “Poem”
50
CD Wright, “One with Others”
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