Barn Burned, Then
The bank
A teller
The same figures’
Capacity to chorus, as if
Light was beaten for bread
A confessed wage
Through another
Chance-flood
Broken-necked flicker
Gold pawed labyrinth
Flints of past thresher
Taking brother who is best
At hiding
Writing a statement
To take the barn’s place
—Michelle Taransky
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first appeared in 88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and is
forthcoming in the book Barn Burned, Then (Omnidawn 2009)