Tuesday poem #510 : Anna Zumbahlen : And The City

 

 

 

Will the memory abduct the terms

of a shift. For whose benefit

the image of a window, afternoon glare,

slush in the road. Step nearer.

Not too close. The scene shifts before I shift:

a sudden consonance, or the continual problem

of enclosure and becoming.

I recognize myself speaking

and my observation becomes a question.

My sentences have subjectivities and I impose

some order, invoke some image. To hold you.

The weather variable in precisely this way:

thin light, thin sleep, 

and clear blue into grey.

What exactly are the physics of this shift.

 

 

Anna Zumbahlen is a member of the poetry cohort in the literary arts PhD program at the University of Denver. She lives in Albuquerque, where she works as the University of New Mexico Press's publicist. Recent events and publications can be found at www.annazum.com.

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