Every Atom | No. 181

Introduction to Every Atom by project curator Brian Clements

I Lift the Gauze and Look a Long Time

Someday this body will be done and what it touched,

and whom, and the curvature of his arm reaching me,

and the fern bent in its earth-down arc.

Now alive,

I feel I can face this bare, and waiting,

and propulsive fact.

I also feel the abstract

makes fools of us all,

but at least if I ready myself

I will see my foolishness

in the quick of my last day’s rotation,

and the fool that I am will be

that much more

severely corrected

by the endless lamps

lit to lead me out—

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