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Leah Falk: Commonest in Nature

August 14, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

				Sara Turing

You said: I always seem to want to make things
			from the thing that’s commonest
	in nature. Then,

out of air,
	you made a machine. 



What commonness you’d find if you were here - 
			what shapes and colors 
	would repeat, and at what wild,

silent rhythms. Come back, 
			I want the worlds
	you would have found hiding in this one. 




						The brain’s loop and resistance.
						Blood, mostly water. 
						Air and electricity. 
						The birch in the yard, dead parts holding 
						living ones together. 

What would you make out of this now 
			commonest thing:
	your face, still a child’s, reading

the amoeba crawls by changing shape, 
			like a drop of water
	down a windowpane

swimming round to me
		         each morning
	like the chorus of a hymn.

Filed Under: Contributors 93, Issue 93, Poetry, Poetry 93 Tagged With: Contributors 93, Issue 93, Leah Falk, oetry, Poetry 93

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