Where else but Airport
Security, coffee-deprived, bored?
Under Hermes,
my graduate students assure me
my graduate students assure me
poetry is characterized—
terrorized,
terrorized,
one might say—by what they menacingly
call semantic indeterminacy,
call semantic indeterminacy,
or instability, or contingency,
or chance.
or chance.
Usually they call it disjuncture.
Unsure
Unsure
of what they mean exactly, I prove it,
removing
removing
my shoes.
What shows
What shows
on the full-body scan—
no wish to imagine.
no wish to imagine.
