April 3
Curve
now my
love these trees, three
careful arcs
arching away
from
create the space of
the way that turning your back on
The small
trees that border worlds on
Two men alone in boats.
Source of the text - Cole Swensen,
Such Rich Hour. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001, p. 45.
TJB:
When
the speaker looks at trees in a painting, she sees a strange fashion of
forsaking. Vantage point and erasure are her poetic principles.
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