From BEING ONE by Lily Brown...



(The Moon Creeps Up)


The image is a train stop.
Or the image is production.
Your arm is a shelf

quartering the image,
or the ocean’s
dump-branded water.

The ocean’s name or
the ocean’s anonymous.

Your name an image you
can’t see, except through
another’s perception.


***


(Everybody is a Real One for Me)


The dog is real to me
in the cold southern
street. There’s air in her

mouth and in mine.
Standing, we see
a stumble of leaves

dissolve to basic
parts, and the sky
bow down to the street

like a future pillared
with salt, or whatever
she’s tuned to.







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