Finalists by Rae Armantrout

Author:Rae Armantrout
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2021-10-28T00:00:00+00:00

THE LIGHT 2

That little tree,

leaves now grizzled

gold and dark

red, is past

all transaction—

stiff in crescendo,

praising no one.

The gold my people

razed the world for—

cashed out there.

Buy In

Yes, we did

ask to be born.

Not all of us, of course,

only the first few.

They must have bought in

to this round robin

duress:

the gasp,

the gnawing hunger,

then the actual gnawing.

Maybe they did it

the way we’d put on

a corset or toe shoes

one night

and feel fabulous.

To be able to repeat themselves

must have seemed

like such a thrill

at first.

But who were they

if not that trick—

that breathless

pirouette?

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