Do I want secondsI want to write a great poem Here just falling asleepThinking of animal names inventing A new way to do adjectives Sustain the regard, all corrupted partsOf the diction Can I enlist you?What’s true for the snail Is splendor Bananas crescent moons there is rain and a virus outside they are fallingin a strange occasion the morning will be “all mine” Golden hills against the greyish truth cemetery appearing inthe old romances proximal, notational sketchy A teenager on main street, it can’t besimply impressions yet impressive how the stars arrangedTurmoils the turgid passages Luscious rash I have learned to sayfrom a long list of murders such ecstatic personal austerities this great ensamplepresumption and arrogant visions make up Art’s heart If you think words are made of poemsI mean poems made of wordsAs we’re taughtI know plenty of wordsThough I come from the provincesWhere the earth is filled with violenceAgentic, essentialTo what a human calls the worldIn high sunA dark cornerOdd fogIn vital personalityStanding at the fairI know dismay has some relation to lyricThrough repetitionAnd measureIs a breathing castleStacking lines togetherScience won’t destroy our enigmaBut does something to the glareThe peaks of theseNodding grassesRemind me of paradiseWhere sentiment is hard and clear
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Hannah Brooks-Motl
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