Carly Inghram

Each time the personhood
nears its edge.
A hometown so dear
you can smell
its insides, the very prosperous
names of creation.
How many places have you
traveled. And when
you return, what is it like.
The bears still learn
from their young how
to tame a thing.
Flatbush is the ghetto part,
our driver responds to a question
we didn't ask. Can you spare
some affluence. The soil is being patted down
into place by sharp elegant hands.
The urgency of the times
is on my desktop, laptop, TV.
A special meditation in diversion.
Can't finish saying what I was saying
before because I got too many plastic bags now.
More than ever, I can imagine wasting
you by degrees: the sudden violence
of dry earth rising up in rain.
At first, I could not claim even myself as hate
even as I baptized myself in her waters.
from the book THE ANIMAL INDOORS / Autumn House Press
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The inside is creation in this poem and how from there we move into a desire for more experiences or more creation. The poem then becomes interested in a host of images/thoughts/or creations. Later in the poem the media is invoked as a sort of invitation towards creation and her many deaths. The poem ends within the self who by this point is both claimed by hate and the love of all-consuming water.

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