Jane Gregory’s poems privileges sound– some of poems’s most powerful aspects– over definition, looping nonlinearly while piling as well as riffing off prior language. The 2nd line is a close to replica of the 1st, sharing many of the exact same words but rejiggered syntactically so that the tone of free throw line modifications. The moment readers attempt to grasp onto standard concepts of topic, the poem skids linguistically, compeling us to find definition in the element of sound, of activity. The rhyme itself is a representation of activity rather than significance, and also of the cycles of lifestyle where factors occur in continuous loopholes of residing and rips. Decided On by Victoria Chang
Past Theity, Ity Idiom/Dear Faith
Through Jane Gregory
This is actually the sound of the sun on a loophole
What was the sunlight is actually the noise of a loop on
This is a variety arrayed as well as capable
Police officer, I heard the audio of the sunshine
and it meant melt all of them down and was wise
arson and below arson dirt as well as under that my eyes.This whole
roadway was actually made of my eyes several lots of
eyes and was actually asked for, called
eyesight that carriage of sight.The tires
of which,
via movement, create popular music, at that point
you blow a keep in mind to make a decision for what
it was happened, state stricken.Say I am as I am able,
a gift. Bone demented concrete, sealed lament. And all motions were actually recurring movements, a wind in the plant
, the wind on a loop.Science was the only prank our experts had as well as we told it back and forth, occasionally it went lifestyle is where I perform my activities, sometimes it bawled as well as wept.Victoria Chang is actually a poet whose brand-new publication of rhymes is actually “The Trees Witness Everything”(Copper Canyon Press, 2022). Her fifth manual of rhymes, “Obit “(2020), was actually called a New York Times Notable Book and also a Time Must-Read. She stays in Los Angeles and also instructs in Antioch University’s M.F.A. plan. Jane Gregory is actually an artist whose publications feature”My Enemies” (Song Cave, 2013), from which this rhyme is actually taken, and” Yeah, No “(2018). She resides in Oakland, Calif.