Politics

After Rae Armantrout and the First 100 Days

the most public of bathrooms: evidence
the terrorists have won

                       another slip-shod operation

the men pressed their hands on the hot deck;
they'd never heard of buoyancy

           knowing more of heat
                              of hands
                     than our wordy Jeremiahs

                                   *

we crowned the ant-hill
with a prism
before retiring

               the rhetoric
               recently retreaded

with chains this time