Verse
Ponsot, Marie
Marie Ponsot Reminder I am rich, I am poor. Time is all I own, & I eat or spit it as experience. By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known. Thrift is a venomous error, then, a stone named...
...time is all I own though hungry memory shouts that Time shone once, way back, through you: filled full...
...If its past is long its future's short...
...it feeds me, my perennial skeleton structuring the flesh of my moving suspense by whose bitten wounds the biting tooth is known...
...84: Commonweal...
...Memories 1 can't disown evaporate anyway...
...Thrift is a venomous error, then, a stone named soup or bread I mouth to keep up the pretense that I'm rich...
...Since I am rich I am poor...
...fulfilled, immense...
...A whole skin's one state in a suite of events...
...though it be dense & I am rich, I am poor...
...By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known, though scars fade...
Vol. 114 • February 1987 • No. 3
