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Callaloo 25.4 (2002) 1027-1028



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Stand-in Invocation

Ed Roberson


    One of your clairvoyances who could've
    seen her way to speak       stared clearance through.
    A New York scoping out instead of eye
    contact.       No voice or vision, no called muse -

    one of your sightings that would be a dream
    if it cared, if it loved you more, kept you
    awake asleep and fucked you woke with your eyes
    resting in the open beyond what's seen.

    No. One more of the feeling un-invoked
    spoken out of these days' put you through
    proofs before granting you speech       testifies
    she is not the mouth of anything you wrote

    these days.           ould've
                                    ould've.


She knows the form, her tongue's just sharp and short of



 

Ed Roberson is author of a number of volumes of poems, including When Thy King Is a Boy, Lucid Interval as Integral Music, Voices Cast Out To Talk Us In (winner of the 1995 Iowa Poetry Prize), and Just In: Word of Navigational Change, New and Selected Work (winner of the 1998 National Poetry Series Competition). He lives in New Jersey.

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