A n n e W a l d m a n : K e e p i n g T h e W o r l d S a f e F o r P o e t r y

N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 5 : S p e c i a l E d i t i o n

LISA BIRMAN

unaccustomed

for Anne

she writes contrails in the sky

going elsewhere coming home

the sound of skin the sound of meat

an archive of embellished bone

all this longitude for latitude

trace a finger cross a world

stretch the day beyond its hours

stretch the hour for the snap

it’s still yesterday this morning

read the paper write the news

we dream of pages as she scores them

vows and vowels the how and whom

she’s running late spilling songlines

a catalogue of lost and found