In Defense of Nothing
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I guess these trailers lined up in the lot off the highway will do. I guess that crooked eucalyptus tree also. I guess this highway will have to do and the cars and the people in them on their way. The present is always coming up to us, surrounding us. It's hard to imagine atoms, hard to imagine hydrogen & oxygen binding, it'll have to do. This sky with its macular clouds alsoand that electric tower to the left, one line broken free.
from Some Values of Landscape and Weather
Wesleyan University Press, 2003
Peter Gizzi is the author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum and Other Poems 1987–1992 (Salt Publishing, 2004). His editing projects have included o•blék: a journal of language arts (The Garlic Press, 1987–93), The Exact Change Yearbook (Carcanet, 1995), and The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
