Then wake again into the wake of watchfulness
red sky, orange-blind wrap of the most dazzling cloud.
The glue is luminosity. The complete is never complete.
I leave a place I've not yet gone to,
arrive at another I cannot imagine,
severally, severedly, leveraged and leavened,
propelled and pivoted. Ready or not:
I want this slough to be sloughed off
right through the open 0 of mouth.
But what I want is not the half of it.
109. Gloss 55. Then wake.
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis poet, critic, collagist, is the author of the multi-volume long poem Drafts, (1986-2012), from Salt Publishing and Wesleyan, called ‘one of the major poetic achievements of our time’ by Ron Silliman. Post-Drafts books include
Interstices, Graphic Novella, Days and Works and both the collage-poem
Numbers and
Around the Day in 80 Worlds, both slated for 2018. She has written a trilogy of critical essays on gender and poetics,
The Pink Guitar, Blue Studios and Purple Passages, and several other critical books. She has edited the
Selected Letters of George Oppen, a collective memoir
The Oppens Remembered, coedited
The Objectivist Nexus and has written on Oppen, Zukofsky and Niedecker. Also published in 2017 was
Selected Poems/Poesie scelte, 1978-2015, translated into Italian by Anny Ballardini.
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