Poem From

Elizabeth

Treadwell
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​in  apple  light—she  writes—knowing—arms  and  songs—nothing

ends, see you later, nothing ends, tell me sky: what there is—when

there is not—(selfie as the Duchess of normcore, selfie  as  all  the

human  things, paths  &   objects)—we don't know what we  need:

in these seeds, this magic—Jesus or what we called the machine:

aldermen,  city council—let’s be rain—skyscrapers,  empty   tombs:

nothing ends, see you later; sound and vision, broken rooms: mist,

ropes of wind: nothing ends,  see you later,  nothing ends,  tell  me

sky: Lilith  &  the  book  of  days—our  native  mother  whatsay—in

this apple light—she writes:
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​Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, forthcoming), Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease’s poems "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" and "Send My Roots Rain" were anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Paul Hoover, Editor, Norton). "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was also anthologized in The Best American Poetry (Robert Creeley, Guest Editor, Scribner). Lease is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.