This poem is taken from PN Review 203, Volume 38 Number 3, January - February 2012.
Seven Poems and 8 Collages
Iphigenia in Sodus
Why does that name sound so familiar?
If I were you I shouldn't worry, or ask.
But - isn't that collusion?
Well, yes, technically it is,
but we're a long way from truth here.
Well, it all seems right, but we'll have to
put different bodies on the gentlemen -
Something that speaks to truth, as she is now,
which is how we all had envisioned her:
wrapped in jade strips, more or less flyblown,
somewhat sloppy about the mouth these days.
Excuse me, I had issues,
but then the doors sagged, the window frames
had disappeared a long time ago into the murk
of this age. Seen now, she pivots frantically
...
Why does that name sound so familiar?
If I were you I shouldn't worry, or ask.
But - isn't that collusion?
Well, yes, technically it is,
but we're a long way from truth here.
Well, it all seems right, but we'll have to
put different bodies on the gentlemen -
Something that speaks to truth, as she is now,
which is how we all had envisioned her:
wrapped in jade strips, more or less flyblown,
somewhat sloppy about the mouth these days.
Excuse me, I had issues,
but then the doors sagged, the window frames
had disappeared a long time ago into the murk
of this age. Seen now, she pivots frantically
...
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