42opus
is an online magazine of the literary arts.
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.
Source:
http://42opus.com/v8n3/lively-dub-yourself