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Samarium
saturated captain of cross-reference
gown floes and Greimas squares
not to exceed the curve of lined streets
travel by train
the coursing of blood
the properties of ice
the hibernation of mammals
hydraulic power
a sunlit propeller
the shadow of a doubt
the active medium
a trade name
astronomers offer 2 options
1 brown 1 green
squalls of sighs insulate
brokers’ sockets highly decorated
splendor at a higher frequency
angelic caterwauling
squawks an end
an aromatic ring
Europium
A beak
of ice. Sliced, fossilized
fur. The circular swath
of goldenrod.
It isn’t true
that I classify
distant stars
because I would love it.
I am the graticulous
flood on the gaunt sclera
of the earth. Pale solutions
rinse in three directions
from a huge gland in the desert.
I’m convinced of nothing.
A dry lake is under orders.
Thulium
seawater was thick with efficiency
a counterfeit quiver
stacks of grey precision
the epaulets were polished
if you at least want to know
the tented thing that cushions cold
or the passenger shrinks from basalt
a harbor settles below the gauze and not as coagulation
see how the visual isn’t in here at all?
the diagnosis takes very little
habits better suited to a marsh
a smoothed reference to reduced cost
or what is a vehicle
land sea and air like the syntax of tendons
the shirt was damp from the weather
the slightest loss to the normal evolution of that action
a margin of invisibility
Lutetium
not so
much and
another
argument of terrain
and
observation reference
and
capture the largest
supply of discredit
insoluble
fief
of delay
Dysprosium
Irreplaceably susceptible
realigns everything: basements,
refrigerators, fields of clover, amorphous
compositional techniques, hazardous wild animals,
whatever is in storage, flesh,
termites, treachery.
This comely pestilence enforces
a wan, disordered listening.
Precursors migrate, touching
succinctly absolved, the peels
of varying lengths a lurid
planetary hacksilver. Coercivity
is the most of it.
Daniel C. Remein is the author of the full-length book of poems A Treatise on the Marvelous for Prestigious Museums (punctum Books, 2018) and the pamphlets Picket Songs (Dispatches, 2017) and Pearl (Organism for Poetic Research, 2012). Individual poems have appeared in in a number of journals in the US and the UK. He is also the author of the monograph The Heat of Beowulf (Manchester University Press, 2022), editor of a recent dossier of essays in Paideuma on Jack Spicer’s The Holy Grail, and co-editor of the collection Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy (Manchester University Press, 2020). A co-founder of the Organism for Poetic Research at NYU and former editor of Pelt, Eth Press, and Whiskey & Fox, he is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, teaching comparative poetics and moving between the medieval and the Twentieth Century.
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