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Poem
by Evie
Shockley
my last modernist poem, #4
(or, re-re-birth of a nation)
a clean-cut
man brings a brown blackness
to a dream-carved, unprecedented
place. some
see in this the end of race,
like the end of a race that begins
with a gun: a finish(ed)
line we might
finally limp across. for others,
this miracle
marks an end like year’s
end, the kind that whips around again
and again: an end
that is chilling,
with a lethal spring coiled in the snow.
ask lazarus about
miracles:
the hard part comes afterwards. he stepped
into the reconstruction
of his
life, knowing what would come, but not how.
Evie Shockley is the author of a half-red
sea (2006) and two chapbooks, 31 words * prose poems (2007)
and The Gorgon Goddess (2001). Her work appears most recently
or is forthcoming in PMS poemmemoirstory, The Southern
Review, Achiote Seeds, Pluck!, Columbia Poetry Review and Tuesday;
An Art Project. Currently a guest editor of jubilat, she
teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. |
