Rae Armantrout

1947 / Vallejo, California / United States

Geography

1

Touch each chakra
in turn and say,
"Nothing shocks me."
2

Watching bombs fall
on Syria,

we feel serious,

occupied,

not preoccupied
as we were

previously.
3

"Makes me end,
where I begun,"

wrote   John Donne,

turning love
into geometry.
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