Three Poems
Folio #11 — and abutting horizontal
August 22, 2009
Can you include / the following year / as / an image?
Near simultaneously / however
Their relationship / is both / referential / and / nondescriptive
They brought the marks of / naming / and / introducing
three stacked / was her favorite / stratagem
mutable / calibration
In each other they courted / deception and contradiction
Her false starts / cues at odds
How to induce discordance? / Our metal memorials / frozen / crowded
They made chains / strategies / tight groups of reiterations
Her capacity for reversals / another form of printmaking
Composition has not serialized them
breaks and layerings / signal / reiteration
archeology in his / confusion / this shift
order breaks as easily / as a descriptive title
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The Sea
Its cakes put me at ease
Beyond painting
a sea creature changed into Hemingway
There are obituaries in these echoes
Myrtle devils a Panama City beach
Empress oil explorer robot, egg lyrics
The sea floor is constantly shrinking
I will be a seahorse hunter
of reductions
an awakening island experiment
This movie is full and boiling hot
with Nantucket helicopters
A lamprey can best be described as a grapevine
near our mammal alphabets
Sea nymph shipwreck treasure print
Nettle nymph
The earth floats on a sea of troll energy
Monsters summarize Galilee
There was a prince, a fire child, a pig
Postmodern poets continue
to populate Greek mythology
with their sea quotes, sea queens
Sea spirits kill devil hills
Shells, urchin embryos
Jack London will eventually claim everything
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The Rain
A lyric ascension into night
Robert Creeley and his ingots of grace
A church in Las Vegas filled with crows
Dogs dance and that affects photography
as much as a bionome that surrounds both the just and the unjust
Layers of goddesses gauge and gutter
their summary in horses and silver sandals
Africa goes cold and slowly the days fall out of it
The crows keep falling out of the sky
Nightclubs with their seasonal orphanage
and gold terror juices
are associated with the rain shadow effect
The chords in sprinklers
We’ve made an unrated remake of ourselves
Latitudes at rain zero
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Anne Gorrick is a poet and visual artist, author of I‑Formation (Book 2) (Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK, 2012), I‑Formation (Book 1) (Shearsman, 2010), and Kyotologic (Shearsman, 2008). She is co-editing with Sam Truitt an anthology of adventurous poetry from New York’s Hudson Valley called: In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley (Station Hill, Barrytown, NY, 2014). A new book, A’s Visuality, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books. Images of her visual art can be found here.