is pleasantly bewildered by the poetics of the thing, the sense that there is not a rhetorical choreography but instead is an experience articulated so authentically it feels like itโs always already existed. No one does it like you, G.
@GabrielleBates writes the kind of poem that brings me to wonder in the Keatsian negative capability wayโmy spirit has an exacting understanding of the poem at the same time that my mind
For a long time after my book came out it felt like all I could do was move two lines around at a time, arranging shards. Iโve since broken out of that mode thank god but Iโm publishing a few pieces now as a nod to that time / process. Here is one in @kenyonreview.
what are you doing now
where did you eat your
lunch and were there
lots of anchovies it
is difficult to think
of you without me in
the sentence you depress
me when you are alone