Transit
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Cameron Awkward-Rich
Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of the chapbook TRANSIT (Button Poetry, 2015), and the collection SYMPATHETIC LITTLE MONSTER (Ricochet Editions, 2015), which was named a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, on staff at Muzzle Magazine, and currently a doctoral candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. Price: $12.00
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Transit - Cameron Awkward-Rich
Blues
ONCE
you wanted to be beautiful
so rooted in your wet
dropped the seeds down
there & waited
to become a forest of sun
flowers grown huge
as your mother
until you opened
your jaw & a tiny stone
spilled out
ESSAY ON THE THEORY OF MOTION
You remember reading a poem about a boy driving his grandmother to the library across town. Someone said that the car is a perfect device for giving a poem the feeling of motion, though you think the two must end up back at the grandmother’s house eventually, must walk hallways lined with family ghosts, all smiling through the window of a photograph & is that motion, really? This tendency to cross & recross the small terms of our own lives?
//
They expect me to talk about Newton. Fine. An object at rest stays at rest. An object in motion stays in motion. Friction has many names — it’s no surprise that when the train stops, so do you.
//
What else is true? You beg each thing to answer. You make mouths for the answer to crawl through. You bite the inside of your cheek. You paint the world red all the way through.
//
I’m only kidding. You can’t expect everything to speak your language. To use these new mouths for what you imagine mouths are for. After all, you make a mouth on your upper thigh, the doctor calls it a wound, your dumb hands at work again. You can’t get your body to tell the secret. Can’t get it to tell you anything at all.
//
Anyway, you’ve begun to suspect that theory is less movement toward truth & more movement through a series of puns.
For example, a queer theorist—you don’t know who,