I found a geophysicist<\/p>\n
0.<\/p>\n
I find that I say
\nyour name differently
\nand keep it safe in my mouth\u2014
\nlips parted\u2014just so\u2014
\nto allow our sighs escape.<\/p>\n
I learn new words: regolith or
\nbatholith, syncline or anticline\u2014<\/p>\n
Which one are you?<\/em> I wonder. (Rego<\/em> means blanket<\/em> in Greek, 1.<\/p>\n Questions sound different Or when you counter: (A haiku is a moment<\/em> 2.<\/p>\n Questions are weightier How far into the earth<\/em> (I want to be cloaked I want to snatch moments Questions are plates waiting to collide, <\/p>\n Christopher Arigo<\/a>‘s\u00a0first poetry collection Lit interim<\/em><\/a>\u00a0won the 2001-2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize (selected by David Bromige) and was published by Pavement Saw Press (2003). His second collection In the archives<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(2007) was released by Omnidawn Publishing. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University in Pullman.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found a geophysicist 0. I find that I say your name differently and keep it safe in my mouth\u2014 lips parted\u2014just so\u2014 to allow our sighs escape. I learn new words: regolith or batholith, syncline or anticline\u2014 Which one … Continue reading
\nDownward or convex?<\/p>\n
\nmeans cloaked in stone).<\/p>\n
\nwhen I ask you\u2014
\na softer lilt
\nend of line.<\/p>\n
\nhaiku or sonnet\u2014which one are<\/em> you?<\/p>\n
\nsnatched from time,<\/em> says Basho).<\/p>\n
\nsomehow, yet afloat, drifting
\nalmost like answers or mantle.<\/p>\n
\n are you willing to go?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nin stone with you.<\/p>\n
\nfrom time for you).<\/p>\n
\nwaiting to make Himalayas.<\/p>\n