The Rodeo Poverties
the first real place
undone for nowhere. a new
constellation magnifies
the unapproachable
like the oil that another face
reveals in wandering. kill
the infinite
as it lives,
in a network
of a tree’s
celestial changes
and my silent numbing, a sore
caved into a fragment’s
point in the sky
it answers
what they make, unknown, I am
a small body
embraced – and not to see
to make a unified
and clear erasure, you
remain in the flesh
and fork, and fuse
a relational wilderness
for a borrowed
winter at the bottom – made to see
finished. the live coals
one will not increase
as the word is
in her dilated
cure. know the edit
they are to the living, look
she
is the speeding
out
it lives.
.::
The Seven Suns
harmonize
the parallels, inside
an effort
of extinction
in the light
eclipses
in a bowling alley
drown to see
wilderness anchors, and a whole
arithmetic for the divine (lying)
veils its many schoolyards, and a cheat
feeds happiness. to be
One – as he walks, One moves
through hospital clouds, a computer
secret stand for loss
seeps through socials, a hive of hearts
fails at shelter, like a family
in a cabin sentence – to subdue…
under the key, the many visits
to a cell
a sleep will see beyond. a door
in her beautiful
nail
when the salt counts
with a light in the fallen
tame and ready
colors, southern gates
like Mississippi
marry
in her lighter
grooves. there
not a place (in the palms)
One face
will be ready
for war
in the opposable
death sentence
heaping
love’s amount
of stolen food
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Roberto Harrison (1962) was born in Oregon to Panamanian parents; he and his family moved to Panama when he was a year old, and then to Delaware in 1969. He is the author of Os (subpress, 2006), Counter Daemons (Litmus Press, 2006), bicycle (Noemi Press, 2015), culebra (Green Lantern Press, forthcoming 2015), Bridge of the World (Litmus Press, forthcoming early 2017), as well as many chapbooks. With Andrew Levy he edited Crayon magazine from 1997 to 2008. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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