RAE ARMANTROUT
My husband asked me to put up this poem by the great Rae Armantrout from her new collection of poems, ‘Conjure’. He calls her poetry—‘slippery and unsettling’ and recommends everyone should read her! Love, Susie x
PINOCCHIO
Strand. String.
In this dream,
The paths cross
and cross again.
They are spelling
a real boy
out of repetition.
----
Each one
is the one
real boy.
Each knows
he must be
wrong
about this, but
he can’t feel
how
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The fish
and the fisherman,
the pilot,
the princess,
the fireman and
the ones on fire
Rae Armantrout 2020