judging by what passes as evidence

I browse titles of how to manage toxic people poetry of skill and terrible import(ance) and think the solution in my hands, the books read each other and self-annialiate, leave me to cleaning the floor in peace, with time leftover to have friends at tea. — O’Hara wrote http://audiopoetry.wordpress.com/2006/06/23/why-i-am-not-a-painter/ Why I am Not a Painter, […]

Gluck

Summer after summer has ended, balm after violence: it does me no good to be good to me now; violence has changed me. In Averno by Louise Gluck, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux 96pp., $22 is the poem, October It has a melancholy, partial truth to it. Don’t obey: do good to me anyway. 🙂