Difficulties of a Heavy Body
a sense of
his thirty-third year
takes
his elbow
*
any kind of
he says
sniff
must be allowed to mature
*
an accident leaves him
and finally
the swallows
*
by way of
curiosity he is no hand
by no means
to depict
a woman
*
often he knows
a crowded room
*
just out of
his mother
he falls between the pursuit
and a case he’d sooner forget
*
he has a
female muscle
camouflaged
for impact
*
streets enough
to welcome snow
*
he knowingly succumbs to the
brown sitzbaths
*
his wife touches
a foretaste so vivid that
the sheen of
timber upsets
*
in going
this sort of
persistence
*
difficulties of a
heavy body
placed in
alternating gestures
Copyright Credit: Rosmarie Waldrop, "Difficulties of a Heavy Body" from Another Language: Selected Poems. Copyright © 1997 by Rosmarie Waldrop. Reprinted by permission of Rosmarie Waldrop.
Source: Another Language: Selected Poems (Talisman House Publishers, 1997)