Rae Armantrout
photo: Becky Cohen
T H E S C O R E
1
One poet
slips out
what each sentence
begins to say —
a magician
freeing himself
from the underwater
cage.
2
"They tell me I got this
Alzheimer's. I don't
know," he says
to the moderator,
as if doubt
were a way
to catch
one's fall
3
Folds
in the clear
curtains, columns
at dusk
scored by slant
ripples,
marked by stacked
apexes,
making some points
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Rae Armantrout
ITSELF
Wesleyan University Press 2015
