Poetry Goal 2020: to read a poem* every day.
Collection # 17 Night
by Etel Adnan, Nightboat Books 2016, 53 pages
. . .
My own disappearance
followed a cloud
that found me
sitting in a garden.
Tunnels reproduce the patterns of arteries.
There’s a worm in the heart
that’s feeding on its allowance.
+ . . .
Collection # 18 The Thin Wall 
by Martha Rhodes, University of Pittsburgh Press 2017, 56 pages
no title
My job is to extract your soul and usher it
along to where today we find, north of north,
a strip of sand wide as wide, a branch of river,
leaf deep. Nothing surrounds or meets us here.
My pleasure—your contentment, your acceptance
of eternity, here—that I have chosen right by you.
*Or more. I’m not tracking, I’m just reading. I’m not limiting this experience to one poem a day – that is only the minimum.
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