What He Did in Solitary by Amit Majmudar

Author:Amit Majmudar [Majmudar, Amit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2020-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Two dark points make the den of seeing.

Me, I want to be all eyes,

a vanishing point to canvass being,

perspectives drawn into my seeing.

If my one I can make a we, then

two black holes beyond the ken of seeing

will make my eye, through art, all eyes.

Resurrection: His Hands

First thing he did was clap his hands

against his eyes, as if he’d gouged

them out with hairpins. Only this

was someone else’s son, and sin.

The hands appeared to blink.

He looked out through his peephole

stigmata, stereoscopic fisheyes

set in the locked door of the kingdom,

and there he saw a million strangers

in the hotel hallway waiting

to be let in. As he studied

each face, inventing names for them,

a fire broke out on the ground floor,

or maybe it was always burning,

the whole hotel—its pool, its fire

escapes, its continental breakfast,

bread basket full of bleached white stones.

The screams, the faces warping, fists

pounding the door made both the door

and his own risen body shudder.

He staggered back from the burning mob

packed in the hall like cattle cars,

hands dropping so fast they gave

a little whistle as the air went through,

a whistle heard by none but dogs,

all the stray mutts in Jerusalem

rushing to lick his holey hands,

mad for the smell of meat on the wind.

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