Sunday, March 31, 2013

NEW INTELLIGENCE ~










1
   



Stars

are the campfires

of exiles.



 

Language exists

to pull things

close.

 



*

 


Stop that!

 

Communications

are being monitored.

 


Collusion is forbidden.

 


Humanity

will be punished

 


with the profusion

of new jargons.

 


2

 


Inverted glass,

a white cup

invents the underworld.

 



*

 


Fog thins

to chiffon,

 


nylon,

 


Easter.

 



*

 


In the universe next door,

I'm gone

 


and the shadows

of the leaves

 


of the elm I had pulled down

 


still make a fuss

over the earth.




 
____________________



 
 RAE ARMANTROUT
just saying
Wesleyan University Press 2013





















INSTEAD ~









1


To each his own

severance package



The Inca

hacked large stones

into the shapes of

nearby peaks.






2


The eerie thing

is that ghosts don't exist.



Rows

of clear droplets

hang from stripped twigs



instead.





3


Pain brings attention

to herself.



Spine on Fire!

Trail Blazer!

(Thinks she's hot.)



Out here

slim trunks bend

every which



_________________________

RAE ARMANTROUT
just saying
Wesleyan University Press 2013






















LOUISVILLE SLUGGER ~









Muhammad Ali