Societal Constructs

Quote

Poem

“New statue. / In a drafty museum, your nakedness / Shadows our safety”

Morning Song

“One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral / In my Victorian nightgown”

Morning Song

“Are you our sort of a person?”

The Applicant

“Do you wear / A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch, / A brace or a hook, / Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch, / Stitches to show something’s missing?”

The Applicant

“My boy, it’s your last resort.//Will you marry it, marry it, marry it”

The Applicant

It’s the theatrical//Comeback in broad day / To the same place, the same face, the same brute / Amused shout: / ‘A miracle!’ / That knocks me out”

Ladt Lazarus

“I watched my teaset, my bureaus of linen, my books

/ Sink out of sight, and the water went over my head. / I am a nun now, I have never been so pure”

Tulips

“Orange lollies on silver sticks”

The Munich Mannequins

“In the hotels / Hands will be opening doors and setting / Down shoes for a polish of carbon//Into which broad toes will go tomorrow”

The Munich Mannequins