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| Clayton Eshleman |
Clayton Eshleman is the author of more than thirty collections of poetry, as well as essays, prose, and interviews, and award-winning translations of César Vallejo and Aimé Césaire, among others... More > |
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by Clayton Eshleman |
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Unicellular sac pressed
fingertips,
two dots, a me
row--or a herow? a meandering
red moist
blastospore, a multicellular
dot-filled wall,
lubricious prefiguration of Hermes
who swings with
heat of the amoeba need
soldered to sprout
desire, an earthworm psyche
spiderline, tunneling on the leash of the
to-be-peristaltic
boundary seeking
something to curve
about, zigzag,
bear claw hut rain,
diagrammatic boogie-woogie of Hermes
flowing in the boundary catastrophe
when the animal was separated out
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Dot, doorbell
Summoning Hades through stone.
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From Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld, as yet unpublished. Copyright © 2000 by Clayton Eshleman. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. |
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