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Never Before: Poems About First Experiences An Anthology Edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
ISBN: 1-884800-60-2 |
La Bajada by ARTHUR SZE Driving north before Cochiti exit, he visualizes a bleeding anthropologist pulled from a wrecked car but encounters only starlight and wind. Tonight cars glide past him at eighty. Marine biologists believed the coelacanth was extinct until a fisherman off Madagascar pulled one up in a net. After 40,000 photographs in a bubble chamber, technicians had no track of omega minus and wanted to quit. Sometimes luck and sometimes perseverance. In the morning he woke to agapanthus odor, felt presence and absence resemble an asymptotic line and curve that squeeze closer and closer but do not touch. He glances up at Casseopeia arcing toward the north-northwest, wonders if mosquito eggs in the pond are about to hatch, sees her trim red and orange ranunculi on the counter. And as he pushes on the gas and begins to ascend La Bajada, water runs in the acequia behind the kitchen porch for the fi rst time this year. |
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