ADMISSION
The eye roves,
back and forth, as
indictment catches up?
If shadows tattoo
the bare shelf,
they enter by comparison?
A child's turntable fastened
to the wall with a white cord
will not?
Unless on its
metal core
an unspeakable radiance . . .
Think in order
to recall
what the striking thing
resembles.
(So impotently
loved the world
Source of the text - Rae Armantrout, Veil: New and Selected Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001, page 31.
Source of the text - Rae Armantrout, Veil: New and Selected Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001, page 31.
TJB: Admit nothing? Each stanza is hypotactic, interrupted; between stanzas, the poem moves in glances around a room, perhaps, then by association.
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