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Poem to Play

Hannah Brooks-Motl on

Published in Poem Of The Day

It continued to haunt, in its electro-stripes and
late your saying intervened, adding blue
to the triangle like a screen. This
system which couldn't echo and failed to
orient the true barrier. A long thin line
from their penultimate year
or the pavilion they're casting around.



About this poem
"'Poem to Play' operates within what might be described as flash: not necessarily insight, but a moment of unexpected alternative, or alternation-a suddenly-something-else across your vision or feeling screen. Technology gives one analogue for this phenomenon, memory another. Flash is both verb and noun, in this instance play also-the action of object, objecting to action, to lurk and loop these lines."
-Hannah Brooks-Motl

About Hannah Brooks-Motl
Hannah Brooks-Motl is the author of "The New Years" (Rescue Press, 2014). She lives in Chicago.

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The Academy of American Poets is a nonprofit, mission-driven organization, whose aim is to make poetry available to a wider audience. Email The Academy at poem-a-day[at]poets.org.


(c) 2015 Hannah Brooks-Motl. Originally published by the Academy of American Poets, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate



 


 

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