often breathed a circle on the cold surface indifferent
to what it reflects. It is not dulled by repetition. With a
proclivity for provocation, I prefer it curved, exaggerating
my resemblance to Gertrude Stein, Max Beckmann, Mao
Tse Tung, and the wicked witch of the West. Light the fire
with the rest of the forest, furniture, oracles, what else. I
wonder is time reversed by reflection, like right and left,
or does it escape the mirror So that my image tenses
in an insatiable present, shoulders squared against
chronic events
Rosmarie Waldrop's recent books of poetry are Blindsight (New Directions, 2003) and Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn, 2003). Her trilogy (The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, and Reluctant Gravities) is being reprinted in a single volume by New Directions under the title Curves to the Apple. Her book Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès was published by Wesleyan University Press, and a book of essays, Dissonance (if you are interested), is out from University of Alabama Press.
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