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Buying up the bad debt
—an edgelands
in the air—then returning
the ocean to circulation
after a fresh
coat of paint : circuit
bent canary song, petcoke
for export, préliminaires2,
jetwash out of my
aftermarket, hydrofluoro
carbon mouth.
At night the sky gets
snagged in the trees it
goes back
up in the morning.
The blast radius
center everywhere.
On foot
through the city as a
live-fire exercise—
windblown,
snowblind,
like a negative
yanked from the dark—:
not
an avatar in an environment
but the figure
as ground for the ground.
Andrew Zawacki was a 2016 Howard Foundation fellow in poetry. His most recent poetry book is Videotape (Counterpath). His new translation of Sébastien Smirou, See About (La Presse), earned grants from the NEA and the Centre National du Livre.