Some Women Marry Houses
Sexton’s house, in my hometown,…
In ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters. To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day we wake together beneath the sun is a red-letter day. —Steven Ratiner
Which is to say I imagine the tapes likelost arrow heads having served their purpose,having been found again like a man frozen in ice,a rock in a basket of blades shorn from their roots. Which is to say I did not find the demo tapes;instead, I watched their evolution, a trackbecoming poem, becoming book, becominga…
Severity and invention—
how the v’s in the middle of those words yoke together