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The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones new poems Margaret Randall San Antonio, TX 2013 The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones © 2013 by Margaret Randall Cover: Molecular Image © 1975 by Rini Price. First Edition Print Edition ISBN: 978-1-60940-285-3 ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-274-7 Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-275-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-60940-276-1 Wings Press 627 E. Guenther San Antonio, Texas 78210 Phone/fax: (210) 271-7805 On-line catalogue and ordering: www.wingspress.com All Wings Press titles are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group www.ipgbook.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Randall, Margaret, 1936- [Poems. Selections] The rhizome as a field of broken bones : new poems / Margaret Randall. -- First edition. pages cm ISBN 978-1-60940-285-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60940-274-7 (epub ebook) -- ISBN 978-1- 60940-275-4 (kindle ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-60940- 276-1 (library pdf ebook) I. Title. PS3535.A56277R48 2013 811’.54--dc23 2012045811 Except for fair use in reviews and/or scholarly consider- ations, no portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the author or the publisher. This book is for V. B. Price, poet, friend. Contents The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones 3 La Llorona 7 Canary in the Mine 1 12 Canary in the Mine 2 14 Canary in the Mine 3 15 Canary in the Mine 4 16 Wrong and Wrong 17 Our Job was to Move their Bodies 23 Clean Red and Black 25 Angkor 27 Ode to General Võ Nguyên Giáp 31 David and Goliath 34 Writing on the Body 36 Intimately Defeated 38 True Grit of Old 66 40 Only Swatch of Brown 42 Every Equation Up for Grabs 45 The Maze 46 Mother Triptych 48 Memory, It’s Your Turn Now 51 Daddy, Do You Remember Me? 53 Beneath Our Feet 55 Smuggled Our Side to Theirs 57 With Only Dirt 59 Downwind from Pecos 60 At the Edges of the Pueblo 62 All Maps Must Be Redrawn 64 Canyon Ethnography 65 These Amazing Opposable Thumbs 66 I Suspect a Backup System 68 Fetal 70 When the Last Gulls Head for Shore 73 Global Warming Danger #1 75 Evasive Poem 77 Not Good News 79 When I Grow Up 81 Not Quite Blood 82 The Human Privilege 83 Misión San José 85 Giving Nothing Back 87 Lips Long Since Gone to Forest Mulch 88 Our Customs 91 Our Imperfect History 93 Perfect Makeup and Convincing Fear 94 At This Crossroads 95 I and Am 97 Identity Bursts Its Seams 99 Not This Life 100 My Question 101 Colophon 104 Acknowledgments 107 About the Author 109 The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones
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