Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America

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229 eileen myles Transitions sometimes I’m driving and I pressed the button to see who called & suddenly I’m taking pictures. Big dark ones. He says it’s not about where you sit to make a film but I wasn’t taking a picture I was driving it’s black & there’s all these lights I’m strong it’s night & I’ve driven very far 230 | Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century I keep hearing the music of the weekend he says it’s not about whether she & I resume it’s how it goes on with me. In my car so long ago I loved someone who read me a poem on the phone about the car of the day you mean the one I’m driving and the fact that she left it on the phone and that was new she said I was overreacting and that was too much and we sent our messages in light and ack she hated trees I thought she’s so young cause I like nature now and her trunk Eileen Myles | 231 wrapped around me one day he licks my arm my boy & driving home I thought if he dies I will see his paw in the sky I am seeing it now and she’s always home going hwuh and she said I love our little meeting I said little don’t denigrate my need to support my need to say that you can I’m glad I’m home it’s wide out there we spoke about scaffolding him fitting the frame to the eye she’s grown I wanted to say we laughed about tang and later on the toilet 232 | Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century thought about tango and joan L Tango Larkin what’s not technology what’s not seeing an arm to say I hold the line I hold the day I watch the snowflake melting Snowflake There’s no female in my position There’s no man wow there’s a raccoon on the tail of the plane and there’s no one seeing that now but me and there’s no one close enough right in here to see the further drawing ...