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As if to render a center
peripheral,
we sonared it out of in
-somnia
& branches kvetching
the roof: a midnight
train at 1 in the
morning, hectoring
west to catch its future up;
& later, thru
the crêpe de Chine & EKG
of a fastgelling rain—its
fracas an intercom
on the fritz—le lever de
soleil was a radiator
coil inside a cloud
& trees crashing under the
white
wet
weight
Andrew Zawacki is the author of Videotape, Petals of Zero Petals of One, Anabranch, and By Reason of Breakings. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the New Republic, The Nation, and elsewhere, and is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Georgia, where he directs the doctoral Creative Writing Program.
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