Rae Armantrout

Carriage

1

The pronoun
has switched seats again
to show she's impartial,

her view
not framed by self-interest -

but to whom does she show this
and why?


2

"Only those who know the difference

between things
and wishes
deserve to live
forever,"

says the driver.


3

What we need is a way
to make dalliance
and overview one thing:

sunlight on wavelets,

the blurred
Pointillistic paradise
lost on us

in the fellowship of
these cells.

from The Pretext