Immunity, and: Ferramenta
- Immunity, and: Ferramenta
Immunity
In vitiligo and lupus -- a body saysI am not the body.
In an autoimmune illnessafflicting the eyes, the bodycannot see its own retinasas itself
as we cannot see our own eyes. [End Page 37]
Ferramenta
Armature for what is scoredand broken --
utterly transparent.
Not a fermata,elongated holdon a note. Not hinges,hyphens, sashes, or locks.No other ironmongery.Casements
shield glass panesin my seven-foot window.I lack no vision
for the light. [End Page 38]
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo Press, 2012), Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008) and In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award. She earned an M.F.A. from Brown University and Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, she lives and teaches in greater Los Angeles, where she is a novice harpist.
