POETRY
Three Poems
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By KATY LEDERER | 28 June 2016
Psychic Photography From A New Angle | c. 1900s
Numbers
For I have—
And I have
My reach in this
Thing—
And I am some—
Two men—
That he—but he
Did not—
Why one—so that
I am—
And one had some—
I am—
We had some—
If one some—
Is that—if
Two did—
But all try—
Their something:
One did—he
Did want to—
The other did not
And I have
My reach in this
Thing—
And I am some—
Two men—
That he—but he
Did not—
Why one—so that
I am—
And one had some—
I am—
We had some—
If one some—
Is that—if
Two did—
But all try—
Their something:
One did—he
Did want to—
The other did not
Repeated Omission
There was no—
Probability—it—
Hardly possible—
All of his perilous—
Thoroughly
Sensible—
No possibility—
Otherwise capable—
Otherwise
Irresolute—
His perception
Which had—for it
Hardly—his
Intoxication—
Would have him
Beneath—
All the—
Evident daybreak
Inconsequential—the—
Hardly
Improbable—
Turn of events—
In the interim—probable—
Inconsequential and—
Frequently—
Possible—
Otherwise—
No—
It—is—
Possible—
Only—
That merely—
That only—
The sensible—
Possible—
Probability—it—
Hardly possible—
All of his perilous—
Thoroughly
Sensible—
No possibility—
Otherwise capable—
Otherwise
Irresolute—
His perception
Which had—for it
Hardly—his
Intoxication—
Would have him
Beneath—
All the—
Evident daybreak
Inconsequential—the—
Hardly
Improbable—
Turn of events—
In the interim—probable—
Inconsequential and—
Frequently—
Possible—
Otherwise—
No—
It—is—
Possible—
Only—
That merely—
That only—
The sensible—
Possible—
Pulling It Off
He touched her—
The table came off
She took this—
He did—
It came off—and
The table—
Came off
He put his hands
Out—
Imagine it
Off—it came
Off
The table came off
She took this—
He did—
It came off—and
The table—
Came off
He put his hands
Out—
Imagine it
Off—it came
Off
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Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections Winter Sex (Verse/Wave) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions), as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown). These poems are from a forthcoming collection titled The bright red horse--and the blue--. She lives in Brooklyn.
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