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[Poetry]

TURNING INWARD, PERSONIFYING THE ERRAND
by Anthony Cinquepalmi

We start with a good amount of language:
I want people in my life. Hoping to elucidate,
consult with a more spiritual narrative,
we make the changes (the groundwork
always laid by casting out), and whatever
part of the world in question, the unit,
unchanged, of desire is a measurement
of its force on the object; we are
left with a leaner sentiment, if not
figurative, a quick
calligraphy of cedar trees, wine splotch
on paper—in effect—, fewer words:
People in my life. We start again.

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