history becomes fate when
it’s over with
no more disjunct
than this world
A gateway timeout occurred
The server / is unreachable
History abounds
a keeling curve
this starts to be how it gets
to keening
love filters : red void
Molly’s mussels live-o
while she dies-o –
that’s the point, see?
A space
is a character too
One remembers that, if not what
The space is more historical
than the stars
*
my mother lives under the ground
so I am drawn to that country
still air cools water drips black
roots tower down in her house
up here a sky never whole
buoys around light of the moon
I could spend half a year
down where she always lives
— Joseph Harrington
from Things Come On: (an amneoir), by Joseph Harrington. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On: an amneoir (Wesleyan University Press 2011), Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan 2002), and the chapbook earth day suite (Beard of Bees 2010). His creative work also has appeared in Hotel Amerika, The Collagist, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, and P-Queue, amongst others. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
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