Up to Speed

by Rae Armantrout

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