Human Hours by Catherine Barnett

Author:Catherine Barnett [Barnett, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781555978143
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Let Facts Be Submitted to a Candid World

The facts aren’t quiet and the facts weren’t calm.

They’re like weeds that even cut down to the root still flourish,

sending shouts up through whatever kept trying to smother us.

All of you, said the new president,

All of you have got to go, you’re ruining us.

He tried to graffiti his name everywhere,

he tried to graft it everywhere,

even here, in the aftermath, in the wake of facts

never sleeping but only resting, pretending a death,

like the female moorland hawker falls from the sky

to avoid harassment then lifts up again,

like rhizomes cold hard drunk in winter soil

each spring rise up like the impossible promise,

like the derelict premise

I wrote down again at the top of this page,

copied verbatim from an earlier declaration,

might look like—look up—

like tombstone or horizon.

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