The Corduroy Mtn.


On A Man Running Down Stairs In
High-Heeled Shoes And A Cheap Kimono

Ailbhe Darcy


"Straight to the Adam's apple my dear,"
you've told me eyes go. And I resent you
that dear, your lurid, and the fey.
But just now I see none of it.
You are fluid shapes, the turning
and settling colour fields
of a kaleidoscope turned. Your breasts lift,
your eyelashes fall. You begin to land
and take form.
A painted manatee, moving through water,
unbounded, not infinite,
weeping, antemundane.
I make a mobius strip of my hands,
prepare to give appropriate inadequate sounds



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Added to The Corduroy Mtn. on November the sixth in the year two thousand and eight.