May 2010
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soema montenegro
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Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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What can I say for the hills
except they were nearly
green, scrub brush brown.
The sun in that clear,
pre-adamic sky was high,
glinted off the tallest
lab building’s aluminum frame.
Sunday afternoon: open house
roiling early March heat,
superconductors, extra-system
geology, like the quiet
conversations between reticent
men, for now, no story:
A bald sky, sun,...
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The Lost Wax Method
Nine lotus plants dwell in the green
water of this squat ceramic pot. Nearly
leaning into it, are there no carp?
Bamboo hills surround the museum.
The artist says its Chinese name——
Gugong Bowuyuan, stopping
between the two words to step
across the plank bridge to her studio——
a milk-colored fish in a large tank——
a spill of ash from the narrow half-smoked
brown cigarillo lain in a salt filled...