14 March 2010

Lorine Niedecker

[from Lorine Niedecker's Collected Works, University of California, 2002]

So this was I
in my framed
young aloofness
unsuspecting
               what I filled

eager to remain
a smooth blonde cool
effect of light
an undiffused good take,
               a girl
               who couldn’t bake

How I wish
I had someone to give
this pretty thing to
who’d keep it —
               something of me
               would shape

2 comments:

  1. love the way the lines move, the girl who could not bake :)

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  2. Damn that's good:

    the frame that wants shape

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