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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