In/dem/ni/fy

*

Ev’ry

artist

work

Scaf-

fold

for

Dis-

cus-

sion

Absence, newly angled at disturbance   

Full of obscenities are these parks filled with children

You ask if I speak another language

Steam rises from your rice and there is mist

I am curious about your origins

But don’t want to hear them

I don’t want to see your photos either

Remember me, though: cursing every light

Amplified by water, I am thirsty

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For Hakuin

Gaze at something

)))(((  *

See how you cannot

keep

attention

)))(((  *

)))(((  *

thought

Insubstantial

)))(((  *

Love is solid immovable silence

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Bobbi Lurie is the author of three poetry collections: Grief Suite, The Book I Never Read, and Letter from the Lawn. Her work has appeared in numerous print and on-line journals, including New American Writing, E-Ratio, Big Bridge, Otoliths and The American Poetry Review. Dancing Girl Press will be publishing her chapbook, “to be let in the back porch,” in 2012.