by Rae Armantrout
Streamline to instantaneous
voucher in/voucher out
system.
The plot winnows.
The Sphinx
wants me to guess.
Does a road
run its whole length
at once?
Does a creature
curve to meet
itself?
Whirlette!
Covered or cupboard
breast? Real
housekeeping's
kinesthesiac. Cans
held high
to counterbalance "won't."
Is it
such agendas
which survive
as souls?
Vagueness is personal!
A wall of concrete bricks,
right here,
while sun surveys its grooves
and I try
instantly" then "forever:"
But the word is
way back,
show-boating.
Light is "with God"
(light, the traveler).
Are you the come-on
and the egress?
One who hobbles by
determinedly?
Not yet?
Last updated February 19, 2023