Rae Armantrout
Fact
Operation Phantom Fury.
* * *
The full force
of the will to live
is fixed
on the next
occasion:
someone
coming with a tray,
someone
calling a number.
* * *
Each material
fact
is a pose,
an answer
waiting to be chosen.
"Just so," it says.
"Ask again!"
Rae Armantrout, Poetry, The Poetry
Foundation, September, 2007.