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I am Standing Still Forever

9/3/2018

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Oriana Ivy

I am standing still forever
in the amber of late August,
in a rusty seaside landscape
a rooster crowing and crowing --
 
and a drunken Russian sailor,
weeping: See, you too 
don’t know anyone in this town.
 
I am always leaving, leafing
in unending autumn --
poplars toss as to a beggar
coins of wind for luck --
 
parents, grandparents
walking through bombed cities --
on missing graves
they lay a wreath of smoke.
 
I’m arriving: Go ahead, 
squeeze the lemon, this is America.
A stranger greeted by strangers,
I am always waving, smiling.
 
I’m preparing for the future:
I dissect rats and brains.
Stiff with formaldehyde,
a rat’s tail like an antenna
 
sticks out of my purse.
I receive invitations: Please come 
in your national costume --
 
But I’m standing still forever,
a young girl about to step
across the world --
 
my name trembles
on the nervous loudspeaker.
My name crackles, and I don’t
crackle back.
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