Monday, April 11, 2011

Uncoupled

Poem, 4/8: Kay Ryan, "A Hundred Bolts of Satin"
by NPR Books


A Hundred Bolts of Satin

All you
have to lose
is one
connection
and the mind  
uncouples
all the way back.   



It seems
to have been
a train.
There seems
to have been
a track.
The things
that you
unpack
from the
abandoned cars  
cannot sustain  
life: a crate of  
tractor axles,  
for example,
a dozen dozen  
clasp knives,  
a hundred  
bolts of satin—
perhaps you  
specialized  
more than  
you imagined.




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