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Two Visual Poems

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“Proximate Postcards (I)”

“I leaned towards him and ran my tongue across the rim of his upper lip. He trembled, inhaling sharply, emitting a thin clarinet-like whistle. The febrility of his response was disappointing.”

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from I and Eucalyptus

“To what end do I use the eucalyptus? Is use without use-value still use, or does it better approximate recycling, where objects have more value in their transfer than in their being? If I use the image I see in a photograph, what is its purpose, being different from value?”

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“Selections from Country Music Frankenstein

“Raise it for the pleasures of life, the bodies of men and women without excessive textual mediation, packed, even pickled, in the mystery of feeling. / The wood fires. These people at my cousin’s wake were overfed and suntanned and rubbing each other on the couch. They were some hedonists.”

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“Model Home: A Study Under Compression”

“Father says, ‘I’ll clear the walk.’ He clears the walk. / Errant weeds claw at the cracks. / Mother says, ‘I’ll decorate.’ She culls through catalogues and paint chips. / The paint chips. / Daughter says, ‘I’ll keep it together.’ / Which means: she is the glue.”

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“Idols: an Interview”

“But permit these queries, please, you who are soul in thing” … “Are faces found among your kind? Do two eyes suffice?”

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“Come Back”

“For there is always a child, one child playing hide and seek // until no one can find her and she is wandering / in woods, not knowing she is lost”

 

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from Uniform

“Uniform started as an idea to catalog the different school uniforms of Nevis. It soon evolved through my desire to recognize individuality.”

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Poems Inspired by “Nineteen Forms of Containment”

“In this configuration we see / at last the emptiness of a center / depending upon the multitudinous waves / which contain its dominance, and where / it’s sinking of its own weight …”

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“Map for a (New) World”

“So maybe the only possible map of the virtual friend universe is a star map. And it is up to me whether to see all those points of light as brilliant — or distant and cold. So today, I drew stars.”

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“The Silence Is Still In Me”: Covid ICU Images

“I admit that I agonized for 24 hours before deciding to accept the assignment. Ultimately, I knew that I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t take those pictures.”