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Rae Armantrout
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Operation Phantom Fury.* * *
The full force
of the will to live
is fixed
on the next
occasion:
someone
coming with a tray,
someone
calling a number.
* * *
Each material
fact
is a pose,
an answer
waiting to be chosen.
“Just so,” it says.
“Ask again!”
© 2007, Rae Armantrout
From: Poetry, Vol. 190, No. 5, September
Publisher: Poetry, Chicago
From: Poetry, Vol. 190, No. 5, September
Publisher: Poetry, Chicago
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FACT
Operation Phantom Fury.* * *
The full force
of the will to live
is fixed
on the next
occasion:
someone
coming with a tray,
someone
calling a number.
* * *
Each material
fact
is a pose,
an answer
waiting to be chosen.
“Just so,” it says.
“Ask again!”
From: Poetry, Vol. 190, No. 5, September
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