I take my time like it's only mine
- I take my time like it's only mine
after Christophe Tarkos
Whiteness is a state of mind.A roof is pitched like a commercial.We give our lives accordingly.
I position myself above annihilation,which crouches in a kind of doggie style.I have the luxury of leaning in to listen.
We spread across the Midwestern prairie without moving.We independently weigh our industrial decay.You know, streets have names, and cars have names.I'm not finished with finding the science. [End Page 46]
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.
