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1

As if a single scream
gave birth


to whole families of traits

such as “flavor,” “color,”
“spin”

and this tendency to cling.

2

Dry white frazzle
in a blue vase--

beautiful

a frozen swarm
of incommensurate wishes.


3.

Slow, blue, stiff
are forms
of crowd behavior

Come close.

The crowd is made of
little gods

and there is still
no heaven


Rae Armantrout

Posted over on Poems & Poetics