DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 Archives
Facilitas
Sleight
of logic or hand by which of longing
you make good wanting
not
not to want what you
want but to want it
with
full
sanction you seek
a reason to seek that which you seek
without reason
waking
from a sleep of
tears
into a life
of
tears each
new vision still
more perfect than the
last
as in your dream
where you lie opened groin to sternum
like a fish
—Garth Greenwell
About the Author
Garth Greenwell is a Mellon Fellow at Harvard University, where he studies English literature. He has new poems in Salmagundi, Pleiades, and elsewhere.
