Saturday, October 30, 2010

Fictional Valentine (for Eileen Myles)

Not sunlight
simplified
but starlight
magnified
so much more
precise camera
work requires
microscopic
lace-making
by children
and prisoners
who alone love
poetry and have
it read to them
all night
as they toil
and shine
out of the endless
books of poetry
being written
today.

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