ANDREA BAKER
PROPOSAL
Each
point was also a center
at the grief
which was
many-centered
and gatherings hungered
in the throat
and at the mouth
of each many-grief
which all foamed
to begin
a new burden
to lay fresh
on the world
so
I set out a bowl
for light to rest in
as long
as the long breath pushing
but what is random
never quiets
and the will was random
was pulling
the shadow into darkness
and spreading itself
or wrapping its own
wonder
content
and fresh
about the world
PROPOSAL
Small crumbs of darkness
swept about the field
as wind campaigned
against
the breath
and in the heat of the breath
laid down its own burdens
which the wind insists
are small