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from “Ludic Loops”


   


And then one day
in your crown
shaped like a boat
no a bow and arrow
the exorbitant
and normal folds
of your tee shirt
each stripe a ticket
to an ocean
if an ocean
was painted blue
in your boat
shaped like a bow and arrow
no a crown
a hummingbird
unfolds into an ocean
then back into a hummingbird
gleaming and encased
in a sky that's painted blue
an arrow over the ocean
painted in your crown
points at the sun
who aims her golden arrow
across the water back at you.
You make seven pictures.
The sun inscribes the water
the sun fumes
the sun with no reflection
the sun gathers back form
the sun a smudge of pink on blue
the sun lays down a messy dressing gown of light
and in your crown
a golden arrow
points over the ocean at night.




Anne Lesley Selcer is a poet making art. Their books include Sun Cycle, winner of The First Poetry Book Award, Blank Sign Book, essays on art + politics, and several limited editions including from A Book of Poems on Beauty, winner of the Gazing Grain award. Recent work has screened, exhibited and been performed at the Athens Film Festival, Artists’ Television Access, Berkeley Art Museum, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Krowswork, and other spaces. They have written for museums or gallery catalogs, work most recently appearing in the Drawing Room (London) catalog On Figure/s: Drawing After Bellmer. They are guest editing a sound issue of Tagvverk poetry magazine to be released this Fall.