Two-Part Invention, Minor Key
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Category: Poetry
Menarche
Menarche
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flight of the drunken megabytes
flight of the drunken megabytes
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Lost Bodies of a Ruined City
Lost Bodies of a Ruined City
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Four Rows of Seats
Four Rows of Seats
I lay on my back,
stomach an empty
circus tent, stripes and all
Lost on the River
Lost on the River
I.
Hudson, Han, Seine, Mississippi—
river, where are you taking me?
no need to apologize
no need to apologize
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The One Arrested and Later Left at Our Doorstep
The One Arrested and Later Left at Our Doorstep
The missing one is restored to her apparition,
disoriented, oozy-blood,
smelling like a marsh; two days’ve passed
since the protest fired up from the gully to the alcázar.
Handmaid’s Tail
Handmaid’s Tail
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Chromosomes
Chromosomes
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Blazing Hot with Sartre’s Last Note
Blazing Hot with Sartre’s Last Note
A prisoner isn’t a man
yawning with teeth painted
by decayed food eaten to live;
a prisoner isn’t a man
seeking the eye of the sun
through age-eaten brick walls;
a prisoner is a man condemned
to the fate of shapes.
