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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Breaks
Posted by BlueIris in The DU Lounge
Mon Nov 02nd 2009, 09:00 AM
"Like This...So This"

Teaching mathematics on the blackboard
deepens the curse of prophecy:
everything willed will happen

The room is filled with motes
hard as gold that must
happen
willful light that cannot not
happen

So my eyes must narrow
at the sight
of you

So improbably beasts
headed stiffly by human heads
or the human-headed bull
or the horse cursed with a spike
in its forehead
of ivory
wander listless among
barns and coops and pens
their tracks in the tame snow
wandering heavily homeward they
butt with their monster
or human heads
the doors of ordinary enclosures
cursed they rub their heads
against the ordinary
doors

--Joyce Carol Oates
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