A notebook I collaged.
"Lead me, guide me to the light of your paper. Keep me in the arc of your acuity. And when the ream is spent, write a poem on my back. I'll never wash it off." ~C. D. Wright, from "Deepstep Comes Shining".
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Approximately ForeverBy C. D. Wright
She was changing on the inside
it was true what had been written
The new syntax of love
both sucked and burned
The secret clung around them
She took in the smell
Walking down a road to nowhere
every sound was relevant
The sun fell behind them now
he seemed strangely moved
She would take her clothes off
for the camera
she said in plain english
but she wasn’t holding that snake
C. D. Wright, “Approximately Forever” from Steal Away: New and Selected Poems.
1 comment:
As I always say, what good is a snakeless nude.
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