equation
antithesis blue insect patterning
over a sudden
parallax blueshifting or
combination underground laboratory
that would heap in luminous
desert playground, at dusk
the tiny wings
unfurling over the astroturf
or gypsum fields alight in the
milky way
you to argue, how many
over money the shield
in pyrite to sew the end of the row
bent book for friend & lost
sex in the ocean or
string of pearls in textured
field recordings they falsify the data
for a shadow that lies
between the idea
& the act
sheen
square garnet faded dream mount
as a tree could unfold in waves
radio signals glimmering as ghost cloth
& a song from the sun
under the bridge giving head
to many men, their thickness
star asterism that curved stream
a street sign, a nocturne, a cloud
stratocumulus in media to divine
meaning in white loops white mage of grains
fluid dynamics rival in a daisy chain
your chin inside its own heart cliff
Kevin Holden is a poet, translator, and essayist. His books include Solar, which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Birch, which won the Ahsahta Press Award, and Pink Noise, recently out from Nightboat Books. His translation of Jean Daive’s The Figure Outward is forthcoming from Black Square Editions. He has taught at Bard, Brown, and Iowa and is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Instagram: @kevin.holden
