What kind of
flowers
are these
in the pot?
The spill
looks accidental
upon their
chest & eyes
a splash
of deepest
maroon
a splatter,
a delicacy
that
contains
the wound
& go on
with open eyes
If I
was no
longer what
contained
our memories
that love
I would
begin I suppose
a recitation of nights
for nobody’s
benefit,
fussball
on a quiet
square
Santiago
Tuxtla
the sudden
rain a perfect
view from
an expensive
hotel, seized
in 7 photographs
clevely
interescted
later in
New York
Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles books include Skies (2001), on my way (2001), Cool For You (a novel, 2000), School of Fish (1997), Maxfield Parrish (1995), Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (stories, 1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e)). She's a frequent contributor to Book Forum, Art in America, The Village Voice, The Nation, The Stranger, Index, and Nest.
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