Fabric. Glass. Stainless steel. Wood.
Atoms. Translucence. Impermanence.
Woven. Heated. Mined. Cut.
Collect. Consume. Order.
A wine glass not broken, but removed from its stem
Ice sheets catapult onto a highway from a bus
A semi drifts out of its lane
A hill is available for vehicles whose brakes
A nail dissolves in a glass
Glass decomposes in one to two million years
The shine off a sail
unlights the room
neighbours a yellow oval
on an off-yellow boom
refuses to be missed.
White rectangle bisects brown rectangle.
Orange, white, purple and black mist
makes its impression, tangible.
A colon is a left hook and right jab.
A bracket is the West wind.
A period wants no drop more than a dab…
Three pennies for an ellipsis.
The above weather known as nipply,
rectangles repeat without introduction
(perhaps just colloquially)
a line is fine but a wall is obstruction.
Though unclothed
this body resembles nothing more than a pile of laundry
HP sauce mixed in
powdered chicken soup
with a palette knife
Tastes alarming
-ly like steak.
Sometimes the sick must drink oil
and soy sauce, to keep from fading away to
When too long has passed without sleep
Sleeping pills
Grogginess is better than what it prevents
Flashed a light in his eyes
to make himself produce
Smoothly together work people and machines
It’s worth a tour. Stamping makes work for people and machines
Work to make coins represent work
Make work, make mint, make visit, make millions
The cent is the only coin stamped onto pre-made blanks
Witness this process. Witness the work. The witness works.
Passport (DC Books, 2006) and Wanton (Insomniac Publishing, 2009) are Angela Hibbs’ poetry collections. "Light Detection" will appear in Sin Eater, forthcoming from Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2014. Follow her @hibbsangela
ISSUE:
W I N T E R
2013-14
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