<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>EVERY FIGURE 1 : I</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>:<span> </span>is concentric<span> </span>:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: rakes sand to
remove pine needles :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: believes in
the impersonal :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: melts ice left
in the glass :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: sees story arc
in oceans :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: writes down
what’s eaten :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: differentiates
:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: mistakes
highway tire treads for dead crows :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: grows in sand
:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: chalks a
nightstand with aspirin :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: can reply,
“The tumbleweed barbs the rumble strip hills” :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: is damp :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: thinks the
heart has a smell :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: believes the
deer will migrate through the deer underpass and live into the other side :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: is a member :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: will argue,
“Mushrooms and stones are currency.” :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: slips :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: collects green
bottles to empty them :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: can’t see her
full body when looking directly :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: is why :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: believes the
river has a beginning :</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></span></p>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>: will pay for it <br><br clear="all">
<br></font></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font><b><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font><b>Alexandra Mattraw</b>’s </font></span></b><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>first chapbook, <i>Projection</i>, is available at Achiote
Press</font></span>, and her second chapbook, <i>in the way of harbors</i>, is forthcoming at Dancing Girl Press.<span> </span>A former Vermont Studio Center
resident, her poems and reviews have also appeared in journals such as <i>Denver Quarterly</i>, <i>Verse</i>, <i>Word For/Word</i>, <i>VOLT</i>, and <i>American Letters and Commentary. <span></span></i><span>Alexandra’s full manuscript was a
finalist at both Nightboat Books (2009) and 1913 Press (2011).<span> </span>She runs a reading and art salon series in
San Francisco called <i>Lone Glen</i>.</span></font></span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org" target="_blank">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>