Ode to the Impossible Machine
Mary Austin Speaker
Hovercraft, stay longer.
When I am most alone, all
evidence of your construction
and mechanism disappear,
even my continual habitation
of your starboard side.
Choosing a direction
is as laughable as it is
necessary, occupied
as we are with pressing
ourselves against the giant earth
and never once touching it.
© 2007 Mary Austin Speaker
Mary
Austin Speaker curates the Reading Between A and B poetry
series in New York City, which pairs emerging and established
writers for brief and luminous readings. Her poems have
won prizes from the Academy of American Poets, Seattle
Review, Diner and Lumina. She has received fellowships
from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Indiana
University, where she was Poetry Editor of the Indiana
Review.
Speaker's work has appeared or is forthcoming
in The International Feminist Journal of Politics, Ninth
Letter, and Bat City Review. She works as a book designer
and illustrator and lives in Brooklyn.
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