Jami Macarty
            At this hour any god is rain

A woman pulls plastic from a dumpster
            holds it up to her body to see if it fits

She inhabits blatantly her wish to be dry

            The rain inhabits its falling

My car inhabits the street

            The wind winds the woman wrangling the plastic

A gull of newsprint
            scuds the fogged windscreen, veers me to a halt

My steering wheel, hands at two and ten, her
            shopping cart filled with clothes and wet cardboard

Morning’s thin attachments—

            On the street of beggars
                                                                            a monsoon wealth
from the book THE MINUSES / Center for Literary Publishing
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“Thin Attachment” considers human belonging and alienation, connection and separatism, asking: Who has right-of-way? What does it mean to inhabit? Who is driving—and for what? What is holding—and to what?

Human women in the streetscape: blatant and halting.

Desert and Monsoon: subject to their own laws.

The monsoon delivers about half of the 12.5 inches of annual rainfall to the Sonoran Desert.

Deluging, drenching: the great equalizer.
Illustration of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge by Antonio Losada
"Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s Poetry of Attention"

"I suppose there’s a private music to each person’s writing, and mine involves an extended line. I have a naturally expansive way of thinking, and that fits with the wide horizons of northern New Mexico, where I live. One possibility is that I extend as long as I can, before a sentence breaks of its own weight, and I start again."

via THE YALE REVIEW
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Cover of Theodore Roethke's Collected Poems
What Sparks Poetry:
Charles Baxter on Theodore Roethke's "The Meadow Mouse"

"When a poem begins to pile up the similes, comparing an object to multiple other objects, there’s going to be trouble. Multiple similes signify instability. An emotional shift is likely to take place, a disappearance or a metamorphosis. What we get in the second part of 'The Meadow Mouse' is a disappearance."
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