“No, it’s not easy adopting a wait & see attitude / As words float in the middle of a sentence / Like ‘a dark till’ —& someone cashes in on / Stolen horses or the story of a man with no hands / Who finally learned to play the piano.” L.S. Asekoff, Stolen Horses
remember upheaval
preoccupies a young maria
she speaks of acclaim
as one forms a life
on second thought i’m a liar
together and that scurvy of detail
her possible rank of windows
awkward trim blurted stately
my vulvaness then means only colorness
i intuit a heady conception of closeness
maria rebukes my contraption of family
which is in time barleyd like a cindy sherman
banquet the idea being its arms at her side
around me expectations include no man
could she take some transitive cover
leaning out against the sky by the way
the sky leans long with whiskey
of her closed throat reproducing
face-blind by pane and noise
away from a poison layover
Sources:
- Asekoff, L.S. “Stolen Horses.” Ploughshares 42.1 (Spring 2016): 3.
- Hylton, Wil S. “The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close.” New York Times Magazine. The New York Times, 13 July 2016. Web. 13 July 2016.