Rae Armantrout’s book Just Saying was published this year by Wesleyan. A new book, Itself, will appear from Wesleyan next year. Armantrout teaches at UC San Diego.
Fundamentals
Why is it that
for it
to be in-
finitely large
is terrific,
but to be
infinitely small
is just
unthinkable?
The thought
of a smaller
bit inside
each bit
goes nowhere
still
has symmetry
going on
and on
about it.
Then there's our model
in which
the fundamentals
are sound,
impenetrable nubs
Afterlife
No longer needing sustenance,
butterflies
go batty around the flowers.
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You call that nice?
I call it haiku.
Sugared tea.
2
Poisoned on the job,
the mad hatter becomes
a bit of nonsense
in a story
for lucky children.
