[Realpoetik] SARA MUMOLO

[RealPoetik Magazine]

DECENTRALIZATION OF EASEMENT





Maybe she's as lonely as the rest of us, not comfortable with failure. I
step into your voice, its outfit. I watch you wear your voice as an outfit.
You could say I cultivated a face. In your. Make-up. I've packed up all the
weather. The men having babies in their paintings. Babies history arrests
outside of my museum, which is her museum. I sing into its building,
unharvested with echo. Tone on sleeve. She's as lonely as the rest of us,
she says. And wears it, disdainfully. I put my cheek on the frame to cool my
eyes. You say you’re *writing this one as a woman comfortable with failure*.
I am breathing this one as a failure comforting her. She writes this
uncomfortable movement. This one has a body to zip up. This one is a reel
around the baby.  A bird's wingspan in a museum, its echo on my tear.



*Sara Mumolo* works at Studio One Art Center in Oakland, CA and curates the
Studio One Reading Series with Clay Banes.  With Alisa Heinzman she
publishes the CALAVERAS series and is also a Poetry Editor at Omnidawn.
Check out some of her poems in *1913: a journal of forms, Eleven Eleven, Mrs
Maybe, Typo, Cannibal and West Wind Review, among others.*  The Mumolos are
from Brindisi, the port-town where Virgil died.


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