shift at oars (from Emptied
of All Ships)
water
relives
reservoir
boat
bottom
draft
displaced
º
lineal
thought
backward
body
no one
knows
the brains
I am now
º
tree
an oar
origin
joints ruptured
soak in
deep ink
º
wallpaper
remnant
flower
float
chandelier
brief case
hundred words
logged
erode
my
Arabic
º
congestion
of resin
personforcasts
final position
restless sleep
º
width of
back
belted
sodium
poultice
exhausts
courtship
º
agora
drain
a home
of you
wind
lashes
fronds
cellophane
º
where a
mammal
bled
activity
not yet
diffused
blackened
patch
of water
º
weight
of oyster
in gloved
hand he
shucks
dented
pewter
º
assonance
her aspect
relocated
wind
shatters
plexi
phenomena
forgone
for me
º
shift
at oars
new
muscle
grown
bone
never
held
you
º
case
of dried
apricot
gorge
I am
summoned
º
capable
a day
outlast
forecast
coral reef
feeler
º
paper
cover
mallet
awl
downfall
fire-
box
androgyne
— Stacy Szymaszek (© 2004)
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