Thursday, September 22, 2011

City Talk (Excerpt) -- Lorine Niedecker










II.

I’m good forpeople?—
penetrating?—ifyou mean

I’m rottinghere—
I’m analewife

the fish theseagull
has no tastefor

I die alongthe shore
and send abad smell in

Aspraiseworthy

The power ofbreathing (Epictetus)
while we sleep.  Add:
to move theparts of the body
withoutsound

and to float 
on a smooth green stream

in a silent boat









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