Tuesday poem #271 : Eléna Rivera : ANATOMIES

“Every book imposes its own method.

Every book may finally be only the

reflection of its method.”  —Edmond Jabès

Absorb the materials

negotiated

along this day’s

timeless

obstructions of composition

Method

yours

Open a word, a sentence ascends,

forms

Temple of textures

harbinger of the recollected

Every shadow its book

Being a honeycomb process

of catching

ore     wind     words

Keys

Eléna Rivera's third full-length collection of poetry Scaffolding (2017) is available from Princeton University Press. Recent chapbooks include LE SOUCI FORMEL/​ the formal concern from Belladonna* (2016) and her bilingual artist book Disturbances in an Ocean of Air (Estepa Editions, France, 2016). She lives in New York City.

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