Embedded Files
Joseph Teti is a first-year MA/PhD candidate in English here at CUA. His poetry has been published in Clayjar Review, Foreshadow, As Surely As the Sun, Solid Food Press, Silver Door [Substack], and Rialto Books Review, among others.
“In true prose, everything must be underlined.”
—Schlegel.
My copy of Jean-Louis Chretien’s
the Ark of Speech is annotated so
much, there are whole entire pages filled
with highlighter—there’ not a single word
uncolored by my thoughts; no margin left
blank like John Locke’s tabula rasa
Yes,
if years from now, some archaeologist
digs up Jean’s book—my book—perhaps she’d see
a sketchbook brimming with landscapes,
natures mortes,
portraits and nudes.
Surveying then, the site,
she’d add her figurations to our file,
and place us with her treasured artifacts.
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