Christina Mengert
Morning Marks
A constellation of the body woken spread out so many
points the light looks back on fondly open it
open it we’re looking for something anything
familiar we take our bodies to bed and inspect them
for bugs then matter even the window
doesn’t want us standing talking at it making it make
squares having felt itself boundless and pressing
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Per Aspera Ad Astra
If one perceives the figure in the distance as distant
already, the eye is too far in
the figure lost but desperately sending
for to be with, to span, bring with to have moved through violence
and achieve this beautiful contained
it is a condition of destruction the figure, not still a figure
will learn having reached its light here having burned
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Christina Mengert holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her poems and reviews have been published in Web Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, The New Review of Literature, Parcel, and Aufgabe. She currently lives and teaches in Denver, Colorado.
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