Wised Up
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It's as if some middle were erased,the mountaintops with their peaky driftsdown which slide wrinkles of icebut no flanks and no base: just airpretending to be sky as if participatingin that color, that all-leveling blue.When my philosophy professor found himselfon a panel with the Dalai Lamawhat he really wanted to do, he saidwas to ask him to levitateso that he could sweep his hand underlike a kid who has wised up,debunking the magic, finding the wires.*
David Rigsbee is the author of six collections of poems, including Cloud Journal (2008) and The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems (2008). He coedited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry (2001) and is the author of critical works on Carolyn Kizer (1990) and Joseph Brodsky (1999). He is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Commission on the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Academy of American Poets.
Footnotes
* Reprinted from Inertia Magazine, issue 3, August 2006, ed. Jordan Smith, http://www.inertiamagazine.com. [End Page 139]
