Dear Vulcan by Laura Davenport

Author:Laura Davenport
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes from My Other Life

Some fictitious village burns

on the page, defeated Persians

huddle and Pessoa describes

their dying: the wall scaled,

ever off-screen women pinned

against it. It’s hopeless, but then

the second author intervenes,

the girl who owned this book

forgotten semesters ago.

In bubbly, rounded pen she gives back

the meaning of events:

trees ripe with structured emptiness,

leaves afire in the summer air

release acrid aesthetic purity

which cloaks the ancient men

who sit and smoke, indifferent

to the screams of women dragged

from the wombs of their homes

into the world, into the burning air

of modernity. The readers—she and I—

sit through the lecture as the old men,

waiting out the siege, play endless

chess. And where the poem ends,

her pen creates

bold loops around the margins

as the invaders, finished with the women,

hack at the old men:

I am so happy I am so

happy I am a kappa

kappa kappa kappa gamma.

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