sag-lipped candles
bats
drafts
the floor on fire
goodbye to the other
goodbye to the other
sill of the evening
2. Ladies of the Beach
parts of island
varietally
close to water
some wet
some waited for
nothing changes this
nothing changes
3. Proximal Counting
the pine
the spiny arch dissolves,
tents,
points to time had
in the gauzy gardens
were this the only
4. The Land of Chinoiserie
alive the succulent crustacean
red box
fisted bee
the hinge of paper/
nothing
to the steep light
5. (untitled)
yoke and beauty
my terrible meringue
le cine
chrysanthemum
oh, my exigency
my heavy beauties
terrible meringue
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Rantala’s Comments...
Sometimes I have to cut quite a bit from a poem to find what I'm trying to say; and then back up to be sure I haven't cut too much. Writing in all spaces of the paper is good for this; using a computer is not. I don't stop until I've completed a poem, though days or weeks later, when I pick it up again, I find it wasn't complete at all, only the moment was. I use a lot of paper.
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