“Strip yourself of everything you think you are”
–Diane Seuss (The Strategic Poet)
–after “still in a state of uncreation” by Camille Dungy
Only visitor. Only victim. Vicious stone.
Only vibration. Tuning fork. Only breastbone
hipbone. Only character. Only divide. Conquer.
Only conqueror. Conjurer. Only crone. Only
mentor. Post-menses hormone. Only meandering.
Maroon. Mauve. Only money.
Only whore. Only moan. Only mother.
Only other. Only offering. Awful only.
Full of awe. Some part of only. Lonely.
Some spark. Saved light. Only you.
Own it. Only words. Other worlds.
Wound up. Wind down. Only everything.
Only displaced vase water.
