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
