When I dreamed about flying,
it was as a skill
I needed to regain.

Rae Armantrout


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A sense of mission lost
in ink's
jagged outcrops.

I was trying to tell myself
what I must have known
before

in a form
I wouldn't recognize at first.

Rae Armantrout

Tags: writing knowing recognition



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We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Rae Armantrout

Tags: language philosophical discourse english



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Ends Meet


1
Could be
time is practice,

balance,

the action
executed in the mind
before and after.

Where does mind end?


2
We mark a break
with what has come before,

come through the door,

down the hatch.

Not a clean break
exactly.


3
Our life was rehearsal,
Mother almost said

so that we believed
we would escort her

to the future
where she could be happy.

Rae Armantrout

Tags: time



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As a child,
I was abandoned

in a story
made of trees.

Here’s the small
gasp

of this clearing
come “upon” “again

Rae Armantrout

Tags: the-way



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A receipt blown crazily across the parking lot, was, perhaps, a moth.

Rae Armantrout


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this route is only one of several imaginary paths.

Rae Armantrout


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Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

Rae Armantrout


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Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

Rae Armantrout


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The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.

Rae Armantrout


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