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.
