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Walking Song


   

             
Broad angel shoulders
bear spirit
tough and arms
at ease
             fingers curled
round instant airs
friends
              molecular
internals bricks
and bridges
ordinary, eccentric
limbs not wings

And shade and you are
one
        you are my won
by what I won’t
question, estuary
you are my estuary
you are my true
eye and I,
a poof of a rock





These poems are included in Alice Notley's collection Early Works, edited by Nick Sturm and forthcoming from Fonograf Editions in February 2023.


Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including, most recently, Certain Magical Acts (2016), Eurynome's Sandals (2019), and For the Ride (2020). Entitled The Speak Angel Series, her latest collection of new material is forthcoming from Fonograf Editions in February 2023. She lives in Paris.