Archive for January, 2007
Lip of Light
If a new day is a line dividing time — a swift lip of light sweeping, at the speed of the earth’s turning, across the earth — upon what is it drawn? The day is the bright night? Is the thin perception of waking, the perception of the sun moving? Is the [...]
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Through dancing and bodies
she moved with anxious direction
her shoulders giving automatically
to the waves skin and heat
her welling tears
reflecting strobes
and the colored lights sliding
through everyone
The music disappeared
as the mouth of her girlfriend
already sharing her sadness
drew closer to her ear:
her lips formed something sincere and correct
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From Hopelessness
The ambulance driver looks back and sees
in her face the pointlessness of moving faster
and she, my mother not yet, squeezing and relaxing the plastic lung
for one of the twins, looks to the other defeatedly
she begins to see relationships and respite in terms of distances
that must be traveled, in terms of the moon’s face
journeying slowly but [...]
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Water Rising
It was a time of rainy nights in which one would wake to the residual damp or late droplets still making their way,
but for the most part at dawn the vapor was rising from the ground as a kind of steam, rising from the leaves and blades and shingles of things
and from cars and street [...]
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