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The Whirlwind Review Issue 1 Table of Contents More Poetry Previous Paul Hostovsky
Ars P.O.A poem should haveat least one good list— anything liquid, fragile, perishable, or potentially hazardous? A poem should be suspicious as a package you might put into the hands of unsuspecting others. Can you be trusted? Can they be trusted? You can receive a thing without opening it. You can reject a thing without opening it. You can read a poem by holding it up to the light, holding it up to your ear and giving it a shake to see what shifts. You can even walk away from it and come back to it later to see if it has changed you, opened you. Oh my bearer of rectangles, if I could tell you how to tell the pure money of the poems from all the other rectangles in your little square truck with its picture of flight on both flanks, if I could show you how to feel it through the envelope, like a Braille letter, like someone else’s goose bumps in your hands, worth its weight in transport of a kind I cannot teach you how to make your own, though you steal it, though you open every letter, oh my poor letter carrier, rich already with the handling of it, though you look for it in all four corners of its own sumptuous destitute world which is thinner than paper, which is air itself, air from the country of someone else’s mouth, oh my beautiful mailman, I would, I would. |
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