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21 " The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious. "
― Rae Armantrout , Versed
22 " To reinvent anomalous figments. "
23 " Proscenium of nearly identical mountain ridges, arched out and downward, one 'after' another, to the valley floor: curtains tied back, a gesture "
24 " Evening succeeds evening. "
25 " I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension. "
26 " an undiscovered tumor squats on her kidney. "
27 " The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone. "
28 " A receipt blown crazily across the parking lot, was, perhaps, a moth. "
29 " Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture. "
30 " The new pop songis about getting real:"You had a bad day."The camera don't lie.But they're lyingto youabout the camera. "
31 " As a child, I was abandonedin a storymade of trees.Here’s the smallgaspof this clearingcome “upon” “again "
― Rae Armantrout
32 " Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself. "
33 " The fearthat all this will end.""The fear that itwon't. "
34 " In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself. "
35 " What if I were turned on by seemingly innocent words such as “scumble,” “pinky,” or “extrapolate?” What if I maneuvered conversation in the hope that others would pronounce these words? Perhaps the excitement would come from the way the other person touched them lightly and carelessly with his tongue. What if “of” were such a hot button? “Scumble of bushes.” What if there were a hidden pleasure in calling one thing by another’s name? "