Spent

By Rae Armantrout

Suffer as in allow.

List as in want.

Listless as in transcending

desire, or not rising

to greet it.

To list

is to lean,

dangerously,

to one side.

Have you forgotten?

Spent

as in exhausted.

Source: Poetry (October 2011)

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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,...

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Natural History

Dusk

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Spent