Poetry Magazine
Luster
What flickers
with some delicacy
of feeling,
some hesitancy—
and then persists.
•
What circles. What darts.
•
Hunger
is like the inside
biting you.
“Like” is like
insomnia.
•
These green cherry tomatoes;
their false pregnancies,
staked. Lustrous.
•
“That’s all I meant.”
All I meant by
“witches.”
Source: Poetry (May 2012).
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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