Poetry Magazine
Eyes
After John Milton
Our light is never spent.
Is spent.
Thus have we scooped out
maceration reservoirs.
We will blaze forth
what remains
as pixels.
Great angels
fly at our behest
between towers,
along axons and dendrites,
so that things stand
as they stand
in the recruited present.
Source: Poetry (June 2009).
Biography
Rae Armantrout, one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets, stands apart from other Language poets in her lyrical voice and her commitment to the interior and the domestic. Her short-lined poems are often concerned with dismantling conventions of memory, pop culture, science, and mothering, and these unsparing interrogations are often streaked with wit. “You can hold the various elements of my poems in . . .
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