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Rae Armantrout

Poetry

July/Aug 2017

Vessels

By Rae Armantrout

for H. D.   Hopeful vessels: a few petals, thrown up overnight, fragile amber flutes, the suns grail cups were not meant       ∗ ∗ Beauty, you’ve sexted me too often. […]

Poetry

July/Aug 2017

My Love

By Rae Armantrout

1 As love settles briefly on a house plant, a shoe, and with steady purposekeeps moving until it climbs the wall, the sun 2 They say hate is loveturned sour […]

Nature's Nature

May/June 2017

Object

By Rae Armantrout

At a stately pace,this clump of bubblestours the perimeterof the cup.       ∗ ∗ “Living systemsmake the most of a set ofimposed constraints.”       ∗ ∗ As our hostagesituation guestsaid earlier       ∗ […]

Nature's Nature

May/June 2017

To

By Rae Armantrout

Girl turned to a tree,sure, or a vine turned to a girl. But what did you meanby “girl”? Such slender, double-jointed reaching? Rapunzel letting her hair downthis wall upon wall, […]

Nature's Nature

May/June 2017

Are

By Rae Armantrout

I want to go on forming letters, willing thisfluidity as if I could pilot a stream as it freezesinto shapes.   ∗ ∗ Soft clouds advancingfrom the west, theirfripperies, vagaries.   ∗ […]