Drew Gardner

 

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Solaris

 

 

some pleasures

of self-begotten limitation

imitate a certain lightness

in the attempt

 

to stretch the heart

toward the actual, ‘round here

we call that poetry

 

around one’s own

disgruntled abeyance of

imagination’s gut, where

are they now?

 

feelings are the shapes of

land, which is us—

in the building shade’s reentering of light

 

formal good-byes always leave a bad taste in the mouth

wind-clad

over the surface

and through the substance,

the transformation can’t be got around, transcribing

the sky to what it is to see

 

means leaves

rustling—

not a sleeping babe at all

 

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