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114 andrew zawacki : 25 from “Videotape” To accord the places their flinty names: Cassadaga, Cheektowaga , exit 54 to East Aurora toward West Seneca, the Lackawanna coal mine shafts, closed as Cayuga is cobalt & Stihl, & all the painted pills that/ fall, je -rry-rigged & je -june, in June, steeled within a girder/ of welded steel: so push came & shove came, fast from the meadows, the ex-movieplex , each raindrop a prism, its spectrum a trick of machine CRSUM09 poetry.indd 114 5/22/2009 12:37:04 PM 115 andrew zawacki : 26 from “Videotape” Whatever is fastened—fix against flux —is under assault from the same: laundromat off the service road, collision shop, the tire & wheel, or a boat on its trailer, its rigging unhitched, taking rain & rusting out the yearlong in the yard; if winter’s a prospect of shogun snow, caulking roof & gutters, the brick, to stall or still, distill itself to the bleak whence the world began: first, is what we forgot, then we forget that we did, passing the raceway, old fairground enclosures, an airstrip over that ridge, route 60 a slushy pvc pipe, flush with antifreeze, sleazed with icicles sign after sign: clean fill wanted CRSUM09 poetry.indd 115 5/22/2009 12:37:04 PM 116 andrew zawacki : 27 from “Videotape” One city, one citizen, country -side crossdissolved with replicas, plural singular, a demimonde of double subjectivity & domain: a bottle tree in the backyard of Warren, the 18 -wheeler with 17 wheels you shot in central Australia & dreamt in Avignon, on the fingersnap road the sun sheened over, color banding the wind -screen’s safety glass: a quadrature error or a defect nicking the lens, coma that cast a tail to trail the traffic— CRSUM09 poetry.indd 116 5/22/2009 12:37:04 PM ...