- Untitled (Aopkhes)After Jean-Michel Basquiat
there is- -memoryin the mouth of the jackal whole and
closed a house entirely- -lossbegottenI wake- -in the queen s chamber
to my cat rasping over my ear its tongueI reach for my heart- -in its black jar
and realize- -it is not too young to governthat I am equidistant from two hard stars
listening- for the reliefs of the river deltain the peasantine clacking of a wide loom [End Page 898]
Andrew E. Colarusso, chief editor of The Broome Street Review, recently received the MFA in creative writing from Brown University.