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Anna Elena Eyre


RECENT WORK






                    River

                    star the cool vector when all’s hand

                    formed from the pulse amniotic

                   burst flush release absorbed fluid

                    vast vista rock solid oval

                    granule in mud swallows opened

                    throat sped veritable volt chord

                    rattle awake bright remnants stored

                   placental call to sun’s shards start

                    turtle stretch of flesh in length torque

                    orbit an insight out toward











                   Sage

                    a willow flute of gust risen

                    resolute warmth in current heart

                    far to flourish near earth start

                   lull nightingale silence then

                    call sweet burst succulent fallen

                    drop land cradled walk muse and call

                    origin all seed to blossom full

                    burst petal declare resonance

                    color tonal hue by in stance

                    gravity spins spiral aural








 
                    Constrictor

                    charcoal in hand you mark sand granules

                    walking a stick print visible

                    from above dug shape ditches skull

                   full empty shells fleshly tendrils

                   press organs through key tentacles

                   resonance brought to sunk surface

                    magnet tilts split erasure’s lisp

                    eye’s body tongue sniff mark imprint

                    in rush tumble float reticent

                   to wash up pearl sloughed confess











Antipathy



sky cloudless dull

blue boarded up

buildings



inside

bundles of rags

stacks of paper



seem to come to rest



city blurred

world

firearm capable

ant-

agonize character tagged

            perfectly cliched

lettered in spray

            paint the 

visible frag-

meant

mentally paired w/
color key



takes a sud-

den hit of oxygen




ant

            visibly impatient




cast in bluish light

obviously feels most

            at home



past yellowed wall

            deep red velvet

sofa

 
            in shades of undersea

blue

            a lost fleshy

Antlantis

            aqua minimal

pseudo-rueful




residant in a state

            in a small caravan of ten-

ants

            who resist relocation

never tempted

             by various dialogues

between 

            newspaper

clipping’s

            shallow hearted 

emotional canyons




ultimately drawing in

            becomes evidant




but more life-size tales

            sideline the ant-

agonism



document its demise



a gi-

ant american flag

hangs

behind




casts

a dead white

flare that drowns

 
the vitality of emblem




ant-

                                                hem unraveled









 
                    Walkout



                    where is the shared

                    sacrifice? I

                    can’t see where you

                    spend dollars on



                    sacrifice? I

                    barely can live

                    spend dollars on

                    an existence



                    barely can live

                    no world I reach

                    an existence

                    only rich afford



                    no world I reach

                    let us indoors

                    only rich afford

                    degree that means



                    let us indoors

                    out there where my

                    degree that means

                    value is more



                    out there where my

                    dollar’s body

                    value is more

                    transparent



                    dollar’s body

                    isn’t profit

                    transparent

                    education



                    isn’t profit

                    open accounts

                    education

                    to start somewhere



                    open accounts

                    pay for crisis

                    to start somewhere

                    forgive this debt



                    pay for crisis

                    champion us

                    forgive this debt

                    institute state



                    champion us

                    participate

                    institute state

                    nonprofit growth



                    participate

                    in budget cuts

                    nonprofit growth

                    make this much more



                    in budget cuts

                    promise us language

                    make this much more

                    tongue affluent



                    promise us language

                    our SUNY

                    tongue affluent

                    critical thought



                    our SUNY

                    our money goes to

                    critical thought

                    the ones you want



                    our money goes to

                    vulnerable

                    the ones you want

                   to  invest in



                    vulnerable

                    much of what you’ve

                    to invest in

                    I agree with



                    much of what you’ve

                    said I heard all

                    I agree with

                    I am your our



                    said I heard all

                    economies

                    I am your our

                    accounted for



                    economies

                    student bodies

                    accounted for

                    dollar’s work



                    student bodies

                    we are our mind

                    dollar’s work

                    where is the shared



                    sacrifice? I

                    is an I &

                    dollars can’t spend






                    Coin


                    stripped layer

                    lair

                    liar

                    lure

                    you look hurt

                    what

                    a useless remark \ a you less use

                    less your money is

                    my money is my

                    money

                    you have done just so much as to

                    so much so to / these that

                    my why less one

                    m  one  y

                    life is a long death









                    Social Security



                    worth more dead the more worth



                    alive what a surprise



                    my cells don’t weigh the same in

                    length of loss



                    as yours

                    in

                    $

                    that is cold

                    hard cash

                    or

                    do

                    they

                    all equal

                    out

                    finite in finite

                    . in .

                    =

                    sign sing

                    in silent

                    g
                    .






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  Anna Elena Eyre is a PhD candidate in poetics and poetry at SUNY-Albany. Her first book Faceless Names: Three Books of Letters was released by BlazeVoX in 2011.  She is the author of two chapbooks Are Me published by Dancing Girl Press in 2011 and Metaplasmic published by effing press in 2004.