Wednesday, August 05, 2009

cmxciv

A sort of right

How long must I be a wind
            against my long-cheated
                        sea?
Into an overwhelmed
            thing an unknown home has sunk

I have noted the bodies, right
            and correct as rights
I have located the hands,
            correct as rights
Enjoining like a right the
            good life-blows, said by a wrong
                        reporter, have belonged
The right under the steering-wheel, its interchanges
            have been quiet


(attributed to “Del Ray Cross” in Issue 1,
“a 3,785-page document featuring almost
as many poets....The poems were produced
by a poem generator known as Erika, or
Erica T. Carter.”)