Valuing: Poems
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Christopher Kondrich
CHRISTOPHER KONDRICH is the author of Contrapuntal and a winner of the Iowa Review Award for Poetry and the Paris-American Reading Series Prize. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in the Believer, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Witness, and other publications. An associate editor for 32 Poems, he lives and works in Maryland.
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Valuing - Christopher Kondrich
Asylum
I choose to love the dawn; it speaks
in light. Long had its silence
silenced me. I choose to love this table
where I lie, the instruments that tell me
what I am made of. I am made
of things I love: the onlookers
peering over, trying to find some
what of them, maybe a gem or pencil
they once held. Maybe a vein
like their veins. Or their sleep.
I choose to love our auspices
because they brought us here, to love
disobedience because it shows the freedom
to love or not love. Or value. I choose
to value. I choose to love
as asylum from that which presses me
to hate. This body, which is not
a body. This representation, which is all
there is. I have a choice in the matter.
To touch you, I choose my hands.
Dwelling
It is alright. You may dwell in me. I am the conflagration
of the never-at-home and the never-not-at-home that makes you
part of the history of people. And though I have no holdings,
you may increase your stock in me;
you may reserve the right to vessel. To partition if you need to.
To live amongst walls and proclaim those walls a home. Even now
I have already clothed you in vanishing
numbers, which as they rise cluster in your not being
able to picture them as they are. Able to picture me without