By Rae Armantrout
In precisely announcing, unbelievable or even untenable audio system are in brief constituted—only to vanish. the result's half carnival, half nightmare. A tv pundit’s rhetoric segues into an strange succulent with writhing maroon tongues. while the area without warning turns into legible, is that revelation or psychosis? during this e-book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the protection nation can come from anywhere. the matter of identification turns into acute. The poems in exactly asserting will be imagined as chimeras, creatures that seem while outdated differences holiday down and parts ordinarily saved separate mix in new methods. the following Armantrout either concerns (as a puppy concerns a bone) and celebrates the groundless fecundity of being and of language.
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Child terrified of her personal shadow – natch – that access-denied physique. BEING noticeable Old-time Loony Tunes heart-shaped tin on which Tweety poultry, beak agape, eyes bulging, holds a Valentine’s Day card opposed to his personal skinny breast. Here’s the simplest half: sky on the horizon blood crimson. not likely. Darker and crowned with a swathe of peach above which a black cloud like a submarine and prefer mammoth beads on a string is now nowhere to be noticeable TRANSACTIONS 1 What can we like top approximately ourselves? Our lack of ability to be content material. we'd see this restlessness as a chip no longer but cashed in. 2 You look simply because you’re lonely perhaps. you wouldn't say that. you return to inform me you’re saving funds via cooking for your self. You’ve discovered what devices you’ll want to interchange for devices if you happen to intend i do know I mustn’t interrupt. three stressful and versatile, flames are perfect new our bodies for us! AT 1 “I outline terror,” the shooter says and kinds out the dictionary. the govt. controls us via grammar and new foreign money. 2 pink motor vehicle on the middle of the circle maze shaped via an illegible white sentence. at the black wall of the Hyundai development block letters shout: SNAP OUT OF IT yet I can’t see what they’re riding at motion POEM 1 On reveal males observe that their moms are imposters, that their world’s unreal. Substitution is eerie. (We notice this back. ) 2 the US has a lucid dream. She’s falling from point to collapsing point in a person else’s (whose? ) terrain, via floorboards, off bridges, firing desperately. anyone says, “Dream bigger,” handing us an RPG. THE THINNING 1 those men try and make us fit moods to items the way in which as soon as, less than love’s spell, we connected that means to sound, connected sounds to things. The previous magic won’t paintings now, yet it’s great to be reminded of it. 2 She’s a tease, tears her skirts off one after the other. fairly? Drops her petals as though she may continually make extra. It’s tiresome. we all know what she feels like bare. On a chilly evening, we will be able to see without end. components OF clean You’re now not promoting the product, you’re promoting dedication. by some means we all know that the canopy woman has simply lifted her head, appeared into the lens unintentionally. Her mild eyes are these of a lion elevating its head from a carcass. (Her twisted up blond hair reinforces this influence. ) A second in the past, it kind of feels, she was once absorbed in whatever all-consuming, draining. truly, her gaze simply appears to be like to take us in. Get them to choose out of what’s to be had except the adventure of our product. To take a flight is to decide which can’t be rescinded. that during itself is sufficient to encourage worry. however it isn’t clever to teach weak spot. Now our destiny is certain by way of momentum to that of the folks round us, humans we didn't decide on, do not need selected. We look ahead to the beverage tray. while it comes, we are going to once more have a few techniques. state of affairs 1 A passenger and a waiter stroll right into a state of affairs. A passenger waits. A visitor, observed through youngsters, comments that the waiter is “pretty challenging.