All (or most) words Reworded from Edwin Denby sonnets
An Eye is Wide & Open Like The Day
by Amanda Deutch
field
stop simply and
neighbor me
beside this itinerant mind
full of thinking, dope, enormous intersection
like squares, crowded streets
toothpaste, witch hazel, ice cream, cigars, soup,
doughnuts—
I don’t want any of it.
field,
all I want is you
reach to me
reach me
move like water in a
reflection
say you
see me
over here
find me, outside the heart
out of line with this American
day, casually
late, blue
printed
devoted
our lines,
we, our lines
touch
screwy angle
but the lines go on forever.
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Hey you, the person I mean is "East of a series of rivers and planes" in my reword of your lovely poem. Hope all is well on the E coast of the states. I am off to Las Vegas next week, so will be back in the USA that your poem evoked so strongly for me. I have missed you rewording, but after this time I notice a new kind of language here. It is nice to see a new kind of American idiom, perhaps even a folksiness (meant in a positive way) in the language here, at once a bit WCW but also very much Duncan and others of his generation. Bises, Jen
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