Parallel resting places
- Parallel resting places
after Jean-Marie Gleize
like hunger eating a thingwe can reproduce one thing nudeone word separated by periods she denudes the image she holds her handsshe gives a description of her hands nothing budges
in her hands—the beginning of a long story—nude in her hands—a connection to the spine
nothing works by itself, not even nothing
she knows the rules they're supposed to be rules all sides being equal
we geometrize one another these are logical actions
the image commences outside itself in her hands, etc. nude in front of me, and so on
the form of perfection is replaced by a person or in another point she was a little to the left or right of the inverse [End Page 42]
like a back bone framing the painting we are all held up in lovely by our structure and mothers this holding is spoken lively nude all the words ringing and each of her eyes moves in concert
other portraits are in your faceconcise depictions of others still others the knowledge of rules gives a sharpness
the night invites the eye to make a geometric whole an animal can know by its rivers
in place of reason we have parallel resting places
additions to this world make another [End Page 43]
Laura Wetherington's first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence, 2011), was selected by C. S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. She has poems in or forthcoming in Drunken Boat, Sonora Review, BathHouse Hypermedia Journal, Fence, Otoliths, Verse, Eleven Eleven, and others. Her chapbook, Dick Erasures, is available as an e-book from Red Ceilings Press. Her current work includes Emily Dickinson erasures and translation experiments.
