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

Snowflake

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 Eileen Myles | 233 stripes or buildings the bricks of the world I wonder what I’ll say about Sadie and I wonder if they are still living in that state and if they hate me for moving her furniture out and putting it in storage I walked past that restaurant where I was so mad I could have broke the glass I’m the only one in the mood to remember this me living and who threw a snowball against the glass and scared me in my seat so hot with rage why am I dry freezing I want to go home I saw a rose in the heart 234 | Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century of the year two thousand one everything turning rose dog head a wheel of love but I was so mad I locked it up and took the key and lived for that moment snowflake I wasn’t there not even me when she put in the key and it wouldn’t turn To My Class I’m trying to figure out what kind of fucked up flower a reflection is when everything dances in a bowl of aluminum day’s on ...