Jocelyn Emerson Poems

  • 1.
    i.

    Impatient with spring's incendiary budding, we longed for the
    irreconcilable tossing of summer's phenomenal vowels: brief cawing
    ...
  • 2.
    …but infinities also passed out of this life,
    not having any witnesses, how, when, or in
    what manner they departed.
    -Boccaccio, The Decameron
    ...
  • 3.
    Strange gods occupied no space in that chaotic inflation of dark
    and light,

    or in the exponential expansion of a singular disturbance projecting
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  • 4.
    I.

    And together we're pulled closer into the absence,
    permeated by recurrent distortions in our knowledge-
    ...
  • 5.
    Beneath any common belief
    lies the unspoken, occluded, torn
    way we proceed. (On the beach
    we were washed clean by transverse
    ...
  • 6.
    A coda lies in this actual frame
    of thin, noon light.

    Raw and rigid wound.
    ...
  • 7.
    for Lara Trubowitz

    It's a kind of rapture.
    Light held
    ...
  • 8.
    The consolations of space are nameless things.
    -Wallace Stevens


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Total 8 Poems by Jocelyn Emerson

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