Jocelyn Emerson Poems
- 1. The Lighthouse
i.
Impatient with spring's incendiary budding, we longed for the
irreconcilable tossing of summer's phenomenal vowels: brief cawing
... - 2. The Bean Field
…but infinities also passed out of this life,
not having any witnesses, how, when, or in
what manner they departed.
-Boccaccio, The Decameron
... - 3. Palinode
Strange gods occupied no space in that chaotic inflation of dark
and light,
or in the exponential expansion of a singular disturbance projecting
... - 4. Ocean Descant
I.
And together we're pulled closer into the absence,
permeated by recurrent distortions in our knowledge-
... - 5. Night Blindness
Beneath any common belief
lies the unspoken, occluded, torn
way we proceed. (On the beach
we were washed clean by transverse
... - 6. Little Eclogue
A coda lies in this actual frame
of thin, noon light.
Raw and rigid wound.
... - 7. Latitude
for Lara Trubowitz
It's a kind of rapture.
Light held
... - 8. Imaginary Weather
The consolations of space are nameless things.
-Wallace Stevens
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