Nathaniel Mackey Poems

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1.
Irritable Mystic

— "mu" fifth part —

His they their
we, their he
his was but if
...

2.
Song of the Andoumboulou: 50

-ring of the well-


Fray was the name where we came
to next. Might've been a place,
...

3.
Song of the Andoumboulou: 21

Next a Brazilian cut came
on Sophia picked. Paulinho's
voice lit our way for what
seemed eternity,
...

4.
Song of the Andoumboulou: 60

The vote came in early. We ignored
it. No ballout-box auction for us...
Nub's uninstructed dance's bare
feet, music we took them for.
...

5.
As If It Were "This Is Our Music"

— "mu" one hundred eighteenth part —


Heaved our bags and headed out again. Again
the ground that was to've been there wasn't.
...

6.
Day After Day of the Dead

—"mu" forty-eighth part—

"While we're alive," we kept
repeating. Tongues, throats,
roofs of our mouths bone dry,
...

7.
Eye on the Scarecrow

—"mu" twentieth part—

The way we lay
we mimed a body
of water. It was
...

8.
Ghost of a Trance

—"mu" sixty-first part—


Gray morning, blue morning, a
feather blown between. Mashed
...

9.
Lone Coast Anacrusis

10.
On Antiphon Island

—"mu" twenty-eighth part—

On Antiphon Island they lowered
the bar and we bent back. It
wasn't limbo we were in albeit
...

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