Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics (Zachary Schomburg—Issue 64, April 2017)

Heather Christle
19 Circles for Richard

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1.

A cell dividing

against itself

is called meiosis

2.

A cell produces

a daughter cell

It is a cycle

3.

I have produced

a circle-loving

daughter

4.

She has produced

how many!

BIG CIRCLES

5.

And requested

I make some

of my own

6.

Here is Richard

the 19th

of circles

7.

Descendent of Richard

the parking

lot king

8.

A crown

is also

a circle

9.

And just like

a stanza a cell

is a room

10.

Daft Punk is

playing at my house

MY HOUSE

11.

I remember

dancing in

a circle pit

12.

Richard yesterday

my sister had

a baby

13.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

14.

& my daughter assembled

four lines to write

HI

15.

It was her first

written word

AKA magic

16.

A witch may cast

a circle w/salt or

chalk or mere imagination

17.

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18.

I like Richard how

your circles gather

instead of divide

19.

I mean there’s only

inside and

further inside