FANZINE

LESSON BY WAY OF BENVENISTE

Everything outgrows
we who outgrow

who else but you

loves what you loved

and loves you in turn, as if you were that, and simple

nature changed
is nature, and change of
address, weather
hands

becomes the you you are
says to you what’s loved
changes, as to remain

changing   who loves

 

 

 

 

DEVICES

When I ripped out
my heart my body

kept walking

It walked through
summer through the
summer rain

abominable carts
sitting in lots
upholstery

slicked hot to
car-belts and quads
and besides these

the idea of sun

which was not in those days to come to
the sun
excelling high and
far above anything I was

to understand nothing
though now that that is then

what remains, not the
lesser portion but only sense

and a sense of the sense

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_{Jennifer Soong is a New Jersey and New York-based poet. Her first full-length book, ‘Near, At’ was chosen by Pierre Joris, Monica McClure, and Claudia La Rocco for upcoming publication with Futurepoem Books. She received her B.A. in English and Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard College before working at The New School and joining the English doctoral program at Princeton University. Her poetry has been published in Berfrois, Prelude Magazine, DIAGRAM, glitterMOB, H_NGM_N, among other places, and has been translated into Spanish.}