Christine Hume, p.1
EXTRACTED GRAVITY
Its law lights up a small, shaky globe
that had been waiting to be black
and all things fall opposite the flash
Several rains at once do corrupt us
moths and rust affront us; someone leaves
thunderstruck; an historian clutches her curious heart
A tear too--intellectual thing,
terrible seed--charges its surplus upward
a triumph of the quick over the good
Tall men stand by trying to help
one calls down a shabby green light
yea, he is my lover in the nineteenth remove
And a lover is always staying through
a storm, until its scroll rolls back
when I have finally fallen asleep
Until I tell you how the sun rose
how before that how long held
round my opening mouth will be
Its law lights up a small, shaky globe
that had been waiting to be black
and all things fall opposite the flash
Several rains at once do corrupt us
moths and rust affront us; someone leaves
thunderstruck; an historian clutches her curious heart
A tear too--intellectual thing,
terrible seed--charges its surplus upward
a triumph of the quick over the good
Tall men stand by trying to help
one calls down a shabby green light
yea, he is my lover in the nineteenth remove
And a lover is always staying through
a storm, until its scroll rolls back
when I have finally fallen asleep
Until I tell you how the sun rose
how before that how long held
round my opening mouth will be
1. a small, shaky globe]my hand
4. at once], glass-baffled,
5. leaves]escapes
8. terrible seed] terrible seed on my tongue--
9.] the small rain down can rain
14. rolls back] whispers me my disaster
18.] low how could how awful you will be
4. at once], glass-baffled,
5. leaves]escapes
8. terrible seed] terrible seed on my tongue--
9.] the small rain down can rain
14. rolls back] whispers me my disaster
18.] low how could how awful you will be