Ruth Lasters Biography

Because apples stack so nicely I'd like to
stack some under your skin. Your legs, skull, chest

full of apples, the yellow kind covered in spots and full
of lumps. Just one red, shiny
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Tables, sometimes I wish
masses of them suddenly would be turned
upside down and that you, just like me, had thought of horses
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Then do it for me. Suppose a blue plate
on a white table, somewhere in a house

in this town. Assume behind each house front a
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If moving on seems impossible, then choose one single
moving on, one splendidly

stubborn deed, if need be: hearing fizzy water every midnight
exploding bubbles, a sort of star-listening
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To employ a man or woman
who somewhere full-time in a hall

unfolds chairs
one chair for everything I don't say to you, for every non-
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