Itself. Rae Armantrout

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       67 The Pull

       68 You

       three LIVE THROUGH

       71 Holiday

       72 Glare

       73 The Eye

       75 The New Zombie

       77 Live Through

       78 Not

       79 Kingdom

       80 Kingdom 2 (a poetics)

       81 Kilter

       82 Expression

       83 Afterlife

       84 Blessed

       85 Clearance

       86 Cloudless

       87 Home

       88 The Score

       90 Fall

       92 Exit Row

       93 Deep Time

       94 Device

       95 Lounge Area

       97 New Way

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      The author wishes to thank the editors of the following journals and anthologies:

       Anthologies

      The Best American Poetry 2014, Scribner, ed. David Lehman and Terrance Hayes

      The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare, Telephone Books, ed. Sharmilla Cohen and Paul Legault

       Journals

      1913 A Journal of Forms, 580 Split, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Baffler, Blackbox Manifold, Boston Review, Burnside Review, Cambridge Literary Review, Chicago Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Dusie Blog, The Fiddlehead, Grey Magazine, The Hat, Jacket2, Lana Turner, London Review of Books, Manor House Quarterly, N/A, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Review (April 15, 2012), Noö, Plume, Poetry Magazine, Public Space, The Salz-berg Review, Wave Composition, West Wind Review

one ITSELF

CHIRALITY

      If I didn’t need

      to do anything,

      would I?

      Would I oscillate

      in two

      or three dimensions?

      Would I summon

      a beholder

      and change chirality

      for “him?”

      A massless particle

      passes through the void

      with no resistance.

      Ask what it means

      to pass through the void.

      Ask how it differs

      from not passing.

A CONCEIT

      Local anchors list the ways

      viewers might enjoy tomorrow.

      One says, “Get some great …,” but

      that seems like a stretch.

      The other snickers, meaning,

      “Where were you going with that?”

      Like you thought

      Like you could defend

      vanity

      in the sense of

      idle conceit,

      vacuous self-

      absorption,

      doing whatever

      it takes to

      whatever

      because,

      really.

      As if to say,

      “Conceit

      is the vacuum energy.”

SPLIT

      Because you dodge

      yourselves

      by branching,

      (expelling particles

      of light).

      Because you split

      no-difference,

      sights strike me

      as

      A muscular gray cat

      trots

      along the top of

      the cinderblock wall

      separating my couch

      from the supermarket.

      25% say, “That’s

      just it, Pam!”

      I take these

      white streaks

      of truck

      glimpsed

      between branches

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