Second Report on the Niobrara Shales
- Second Report on the Niobrara Shales
Thank you, Michelle, for navigating us through all the legal stuff and getting the best deal we could get.
—post comment, the Niobrara News: Niobrara Shale Oil Play Information for the Common Joe, 2014
a personal roar in seas beneath what herbaceous life is Michelle in time sink
some good water resting rusting
weld unanimously a massive field
to use how before fountains out blood or a national monument
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24 drills 18 tanksthe mind a methodof extraction Michelle
oil before blisteringthe lives of childrensomething built to fail
associated production10,000 ft deep darkthe binding direction [End Page 102]
of flows to human thirstssize is ridiculousa pervasive field
lungs and mindsa shame to change
humans are notan area
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Michelle,
what I would report of rumors caustic males
the matte grasses on damp sands in June
under sugar pines rosa woodsill pale pink star spangling mixed sky with white water
the sight shapes the rose filaments deep in dunes a new shore stirs [End Page 103]
matthew cooperman is the author of NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), with Aby Kaupang, released by Futurepoem in 2018. Earlier books include Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize from Free Verse Editions, 2016; the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, with Marius Lehene, released by Jaded Ibis in 2013; and Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move, released by Counterpath in 2011. A poetry editor for Colorado Review and professor at Colorado State University, he lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their two children.
