Rae Armantrout

[from Rae Armantrout's Up to Speed, Wesleyan, 2004]

Entanglement

1

"Don't let the car fool you.

My treasure
is in heaven."

2

The material world is made up
entirely

of collisions

between otherwise
indefinite objects.

Then what is a collision?

(Or the physical world
collapses

into place

at the shock of
being seen.)

3

In the shorter version,

tentacled
stomach swallows stomach.

In a long dream,
I'm with Aaron,

visiting his future,
helping him make choices.