Monolith

By Elaine Equi

cheerful stoic epic

cozy corporate convalescence

hollow gold-brick rhetoric

almighty and sleek

Photograph by Elaine Equi

Source: Poetry (July/August 2014)

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Elaine Equi’s most recent book is Sentences and Rain (Coffee House Press, 2015). She teaches at New York University and in the MFA Program at the New School.

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