[Realpoetik] JACKIE CLARK

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Mon Jun 28 08:03:18 PDT 2010


WE GATHER AT NIGHT


We have spent
the day collecting

like mercury.
Our shiny

beaded pool,
our independent

gauge.  I am only
every adjective I can’t

think of and still
you are well-fitted

from bone to skin.
It is menacing

to acquire fences,
to drive down

from the mountain
day after day.



WE GATHER AT NIGHT


Under the
ammunition

of the red room
I am unwrinkling

gallantry with
a blindfold.

You are
forcing the hatch

and bounding
the floor in rubber.

The idea of us
is my palm

held up parallel
to my face.



*Jackie Clark* is editor-in-chief of *LIT <http://litmagazine.org/>* magazine.
She is also the series editor of*Poets off Poetry* at
*Coldfront*<http://coldfrontmag.com/>.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from *Word for/Word*, *Sixth Finch*,
and *Fou*, among other places.  Her chapbook *Office Work* is forthcoming
from Greying Ghost Press.  She blogs occasionally at No Help for
That<http://nohelpforthat.wordpress.com/>
.


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