Elizabeth Robinson
from PROPOSITION
[build: mother, i]
Elizabeth Robinson
from PROPOSITION
[build: mother, i]
That a proposition is not against any Law
that a moment of logic may be spurious
but logic
for example:
I see breasts that give milk
They are real
if the milk is not
who said that:
(the point exactly of Law)
the dialogue of one breast to another is surfeit
let all organs of logic be untamed
but let each lawful word modulate its organ
It would be possible to misunderstand “law” and “Law” and “logic”
“
”
I do not want to explain it
As far as one can know
the unearthly is not unearthly
so
is the lake that fills it
fluid tonnage of logic
drink
proof
exit
in center
the lower case
the body leaning
toward it
this depression
I.e., in a slight misunderstanding
make a site, then hollow it out
reckless use of rules
calling
for example
memory a teat
(this recklessness acquired a body by cheating
then demanded proof)
this was a mouth
(not the demand
the proof)
heretofore milk signified
belief
in nourishment
too much said and done
is proof
make a mouth of it
jibing
Straighten your mockery
put a breast over a blouse
certain weather for the maternal
upends intention
whatever else was a breast for
but to obey
intention
as was always so reckless
tamped down
utterly unbiased
impartial
depressed
logistically stable
erotic
Put a mouth over blouse between breast
and abeyance
rude with intention
That proposition
the point exactly of Law
lactates
naming for example
the mouth the organ who resided
on top of its garment
Labelling as such
the reckless ordering
is it
a propriety of truth
or thirst’s obedience
Elizabeth Robinson is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Apostrophe, from Apogee Press, and Under That Silky Roof, from Burning Deck Press. She has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize. Robinson co-edits EtherDome Chapbooks and Instance Press and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.