Katharina Schultens Poems

Essentially this board exists without strict boundaries, yet
inconsequential rivulets escape through unseen rifts;
as if its edges had not been well sealed; its sides: all split;
where a fluid forms through seepage; an open possibility
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Is there still some landscape we may flatten out?
Do things endlessly progress towards some distant singularity?
bit by bit stripped back towards the radioactive core?
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The idea is to cover up what may be profitable, to cloak;
resulting in a slow and heavy smog that smooches
close around the prize. Thus, we have these pools;
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Your scanning of my substance gives me sight, though I cannot see you.
Your body as I build it remains unresolved. I own you only
when you stay in view. Move outside the field of vision to take yourself back.
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The second of my dancing bears would run half-marathons.
Like Laokoon, he had his life wrapped up in bonds
yet twitched to lift his paws, testing each in turn,
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