[Realpoetik] JACQUELINE WATERS

[RealPoetik Magazine]

A PLOY



a plugged-in glow globe throwing



thumbprints of land, islets of the outer Pacific



over snow



stuffing up gaps



in the hospital hot/cool unit.





no sleep at first, dream



about a patch of bog



paved over by the wide margin



Thoreau loves to his life:



“I love a wide margin to my life” – Thoreau.



* *

*it *was lovely to say



that *it* was raining



and to mean



that *part of you *was low: half



was suspecting yourself



*on to something*: the rest



fell from following



the first half’s lead:



opening a book on the bar



in front of each empty chair:



setting yourself



at the bar’s far end



till night, your own cloud of it



                            ran right to the orbs of your eyes.





No emotion is pleasing!



Each must be rejected



replaced by an opposite



rejected and replaced by yet another



vast strain of undifferentiated sentiment






till longing collapses



as its silvered edges



ebb themselves equal, eager



to stand there lapsed



by the great lapses



you find in your way



until you find your way



or till you find your ways



have rearranged you slightly



as a mirror rearranges slightly



what has mostly been lived



by sight.



*Jacqueline Waters* is the author of a book, *A Minute without*
*Danger* (Adventures
in Poetry), and a chapbook, *The Garden of Eden a College* (A Rest Press). A
new book will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2011. She lives in San
Francisco and is an editor of The Physiocrats, a pamphlet press.

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