sonnet: michael jackson
Muse in the mirror lays the full burden in
Interpersonal relations kept abstract inseparable
from the body
Communication formed around the sounds
How to sing through this rupture
Ambivalent about the audience not acquiescence
Explained best via
Less fact than nostalgia
Justice in the way in which
Acquisition tends to work in
Conflated silence like a dark
Knight or other people under
Siege settings silence and tied
Of direct word of mouth occupied with violence
Nether worlds colliding as they fade
Ekleksographia:
Wave Two
May, 2010
Poetry
Jane Joritz–Nakagawa
Jane Joritz–Nakagawa's fourth book of poems, The Meditations, is forthcoming from Otoliths. She lives in central Japan.