3) ornament — nguyễn-nguyễn

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2023

2021

with animal teeth ¹

a blush tears itself in half deep ²

bounty, its finite grace ³

firm, oblique, accepting everything with the same ⁴

like a god: that which manifests ⁵

is it not drama? ⁶

whose modes of coagulation and cohabitation ⁷

draw chalk lines between ⁸

our counterparts, ⁹

into the maniac murmurs of that impossible carcass economy ¹⁰

those seventeen-year locusts hanging off the trees ¹¹

with animal teeth ¹ a blush tears itself in half deep ² bounty, its finite grace ³ firm, oblique, accepting everything with the same ⁴ like a god: that which manifests ⁵ is it not drama? ⁶ whose modes of coagulation and cohabitation ⁷ draw chalk lines between ⁸ our counterparts, ⁹ into the maniac murmurs of that impossible carcass economy ¹⁰ those seventeen-year locusts hanging off the trees ¹¹

¹ Barbara Jane Reyes
² Anne Carson
³ Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr.
⁴ John Ashbery
⁵ Joshua Corey
⁶ Don Mee Choi
⁷ Stephen Burt
⁸ Divya Victor
⁹ Adrienne Rich
¹⁰ Daniel Borzutsky
¹¹ Paul Muldoon