Exit Row

You will buy your life
as a series

of "experiences"

to which you
will belong.

Have a good flight.
 
            •

Do you believe
in reproduction?

Do you think this
upland of clouds,

white buttes cut
by shadow canyons,

shapely and boundless

as the body
you were promised,

will reappear
after you're gone?

            •

Boarding all zones at this time

 

Copyright Credit: Rae Armantrout, "Exit Row" from Itself. Copyright © 2015 by Rae Armantrout.  Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Source: Itself (Wesleyan University Press, 2015)