blog of poet, leah umansky

How to Use the Dead

1.

Invent a contrast – stir shit up.

2.

Milk it.

And dancing (maybe even seduction – a sashay or two?) Maybe even a purring:

please/please/please

3.

Use the supposed. Find what is husbanded in: 

faucets, drains, sills,  the threadbare, handles, footpaths, half-chewed pencils, hardback books, tin forks, the tarnished, diamonds, the spat-on,  the rusted.

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Well come on you all –

How does one do this?

There is only so much exploration I want on two feet.

Give me an oar, and a muse or two.

No, make it a siren.

I want me one of them.

© Umansky 2009