This poem is taken from PN Review 227, Volume 42 Number 3, January - February 2016.
‘Outside Echoes’ and other poems
Outside Echoes
The best way to satisfy your baby
is surely
not by junking it.
Start again with smoke
on the face
of distinction.
Start with the neutral-
ized myth of
necessary ancestors.
I knew it was a lie
to use signs
you would take
As colonial, but nu?
We were playing
it out, each
Turn a negation
split to accord
what no time can
Afford. Let the page
dictate you
...
The best way to satisfy your baby
is surely
not by junking it.
Start again with smoke
on the face
of distinction.
Start with the neutral-
ized myth of
necessary ancestors.
I knew it was a lie
to use signs
you would take
As colonial, but nu?
We were playing
it out, each
Turn a negation
split to accord
what no time can
Afford. Let the page
dictate you
...
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