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“Matutinal Mating” — FLAT Journal

Interview with Mary-Kim Arnold

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 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