The Director's Cut

by

Jonathon Baker

(2002)

Mathematics & Corpses

I’m stuffing
all these
envelopes
into a wooden
box under
the desk.
If words
are corpses
I must,
scrambled
in code,
name what
this longing
is like
& what
this longing
is not.

- Joshua Marie Wilkinson, from his collection S.O.A.S.I.A.R.