CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES
Let us creep apart from them.
Let us be
eternal cynics who despise
things like
polo and expatriate accents.
Except, I will
continue to say dishabille
as scantily as
I envision it, whatever rules
we make,
alluding again and again
to the
porcelain lamp I flick on and off
in my
elliptical dream. Let us welcome
the wounding of
our structures, their division
into parcels of
turned-away desire.
Then let us
take down all the fences,
position the
floodlights to capture
the glory of
the dark procession
as our
creatures stumble free.
Shanna Compton's newest book is Brink (December, 2012). Her poetry collections include Down Spooky, For Girls, and The Seam (forthcoming 2013), as well as several chapbooks. Work has recently appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poets.org/Poem Flow app, Poetry Daily, Horse Less Review, and on buses in Atlanta, GA via Emory University’s Poetry in Motion program.
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