Stephanie Anderson

from "Lightbox"

Red balloons fell all evening.
Feeling tumble-
              weed, I disassembled
objects to put in – language
                                             with mushroom,
the late dark lake.    I wept
at the first
                fluke, at the patter
of water-running birds.  Saw
the windmills,
                       a circus of swans,
injected preparations
                            of sense organs.
Taste the lure,
               mute, forcibly seamed.

Stephanie Anderson

Stephanie Anderson is the author of In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments (Horse Less Press) and Variants on Binding (forthcoming, National Poetry Review Press). Her most recent chapbooks are Charting Practice: A Fictive Essay (Double Cross Press) and Sentence, Signal, Stain (Greying Ghost). She edits the micropress Projective Industries and currently lives in Chicago.

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