2 September 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 3
Lively Dub Yourself
pigeons startling out
gutted light nor dark
rubble and litter chimes
in the gut
an instance of
infinite idling
elsewhere a chair
you are bigger
than your head
can hold
to ward off that cough
inhale the burnt
through a raging hole in the wall
a hole is nothing a blind
force renovating
the view stuttering with dyslexias
views embedded with cement echoes
black chair conjectural room
you know the voice, don't you
up through the drain
of a deep double sink
ignore it and it
will have you
in self-made hearings
an ear is a gutter
for getting comfortable
About the author:
Christine Hume is the author of Musca Domestica (Beacon Press 2000), Alaskaphrenia (New Issues 2004), and a chapbook (with CD by James Marks), Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense (Ugly Ducking Presse 2008). She is an associate professor of English at Eastern Michigan University.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Christine Hume at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 8, No. 3, where "Lively Dub Yourself" ran on September 2, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
