Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Laura E. Wright, Three Poems


Laura E. Wright


Irretrievably Broken
 


 
 
Find: Gone
 



 
Gone, all of us
                                                gone
                       
I think you should know

this is not for you (as it is in real life); I've seen
how we would still have these metal teeth

how he would still be painfully obvious
how he would still lean toward subtraction

I think you should know

how to claw your way back out; I've seen
how possibility pushes back

in this dance in which I have not yet moved

how he would still leave a hole
how he would still leave
how he would still

            be still

I think you should know

the arctic possibilities
this little sliver of the world that is all that I can see

            be still

you will not be rewarded

I think you should know

this is not for you

this view has been framed for one hundred fifteen years
and nothing has changed

I think you should know

how I do not say
this is not true

being cold is real

and while the view has changed,
the frame has not


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Laura E. Wright is a librarian and erstwhile volunteer firefighter, the co-editor, with Anne Waldman, of Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press 2009), and a firm believer in the Oxford comma.
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RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture, http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1938-3592, Volume 5 (2011): Disappearance

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