Framing

By Rae Armantrout

This article appeared in the February 5, 2007 edition of The Nation.

January 17, 2007

       for Robert Creeley (1926-2005)


What you won't see today:

juniper's tough skein.


  *

The rolling
hummocks

have grown syntax--

tassels and bells--

for careless
wings to be among.


  *

The tic
in articulation.


  *

The present is cupped

by a small effort
of focus--

its muscular surround.

You're left out.

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