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James Owens :: Eurydice: Five Propositions



          Georgics IV: 295-314

1.

The first arbitration is a narrow roof.
The fourth increases pressure on the walls.
The square of the diameter of the hole is
one times the window plus the outside minus one.

2.

Two arches sometimes rudder the wing mantle.
The nostrils and mouth breathe. This is necessary.

3.

He talked a lot of loosening the skin and meat.
I am in jail between the ribs. Leaving the river bank
illustrates that cassia and thyme have recently broken,
due to wind noise washing over water plants.

4.

Beam and beam, in addition to softening the bones.
Oddly, the opinion that human dignity
is miraculously born on the skin will be discovered – 
nor is it the office of the priest's feet, in the first place.

5.

In some games, there are all the words, like wings.
At the same time, there are not many skills in the air.




James Owens's most recent book is Mortalia (FutureCycle Press, 2015). His poems and translations appear widely in literary journals, including recent publications in Adirondack Review, The Curlew, The Honest Ulsterman, and Southword. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario.

 

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