Where there’s smoke


there are mirrors
there are mirrors
and a dry ice machine,
and a dry ice machine,
industrial quality fans.
industrial quality fans.
If I’ve learned anything
If I’ve learned anything
about the present moment —Rae Armantrout
about the present moment
—Rae Armantrout

3 responses to “Where there’s smoke”

  1. love these! Man that deer dude is looking right atcha! What’s that first one, the insect? In the smaller pick I couldn’t tell if it were coming or going…….like…antenna on the back?

  2. Alternate lines:

    and bandits emerged
    like aquatic realities in the midst of a metallic reality.
    Only fever and poetry evoke visions.
    Only love and memory.
    Not these paths or these plains.
    Not these labyrinths.

    —Roberto Bolaño (b. April 28, 1953), translated by Laura Healy

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