like nothing else in tense, ése
erasure of "Anecdote of the Jar," by Wallace Stevens
Vickie Vértiz
I(‘m) a dominó, every here
gray and bare
not bird or bush
I plait,
ill, ma(‘)
round and up
és(a) ros(a) esta rota
, p_to
(s)he’s lovely
(a) long wild wound
the wound, the ground
a tall potion
the wild es sí
and round it was
up, on a hill
(a) long wild wound
I’ll rose up and raw around
no longer wound, f(oo’)
not a bird or brush
like nothing else in tense, ése
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Vickie Vértiz was selected by Natalie Diaz for the 2016 Summer Residency at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson. A new Macondo Fellow, her second book, Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut will be published by the Camino Del Sol Series, in the fall of 2017.