MARROWING
If she is
a standing error
a formal invitation
a breath
motion stop eye:
keep within 2 minutes
distance struck
my name weighed less than
2 minutes
spun up
up spun
weighted less than
To Whom it May Concern
keep moving
anticipate
and shift
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Vessel ladder notation
the river shifts
image raise and arm
joy sounded
in whole joy
a notation is
vessel distracted
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Sound spun stepped up
and then and then and
the line moved through
and repeat
her efforts making
a sentence timed to arrive
exactly at the end
but bluer and reassembled
a self resemblance
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broken how
and I can't
grey blinked
and mixed into
then less than against
her crossing ladder alone
the sentence swimming
until the concrete cracked
joy contained wilder
a self-eyed wave
reading as reading
greater than
spinning or standing
less than cell
spun framed and found
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breath and effort
my face turned blue
the opposite of chaos
the action itself
rigor or comfort or
my joy ascending
greater than
how he comes
apart explained and
I'm not breathing
time puncture
whole joy amok
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pushed into
the here
formation
still the bounding
in
every side voracious
and blinking
spun tenuous
walking image
cell frame found
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less than
H for ash
an arm turn
H for ladder
bloom amok
not rigor or
H for self-eyed
comfort or
greater than
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breathing against
knowing
eye self you're
selfish self eyed
mirror placed
colliding
coiled
joy notation
river turn
second rip
and ascend
echo atop
vessel night
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If she is standing:
A formal invitation
If she imitates standing
she is
spinning or standing
as reading as reading as
standing or spun frame
marrow without in
an understanding
conditions without a circle
or without a wire imitation
of a imitation and a circle
is she reading as if
standing as if reading
as if breathing
as if she is framed as if
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2 minutes distance
clinging
broken rungs
still the ladder
How words
fall apart
stepping down
less than up
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The weight of motion
the line through
how her eye watches
upwards and tumbled
over the hand and
effort held my face
on every side
voracious and knowing
the flying dream
moving still and through
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Melody how
shadows memory
close music
a repeat
memory how
melody shadow
marrow repeat
marrowing close
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Walking as walking
atop must night
stepping she
begins where I
fell bounding
resembled
a dream
punctured
voracious
and image
how the late
outward or
still ladder shaking
risk other
mirror utter
amok self
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Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007) and DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009. Larkin is one of the organizsers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. Her new book, The Name of This Intersection is Frost, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books.
