Emily Anderson
2 poems
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Pantoum
Begin: wren in eyes: pick at crumbs of bed
Dashed, departed, sleep
Flutters, flocks in full dread:
Drops indivisible, water: sieved, named seep
Dashes, departs—sleep:
Carousing, out looking for love or what
Drops indivisible: Water. Sieved name, seep
Lipless drunk—kiss me. Be my conjunction, but
Carousing, out looking for love or what-
ever the past interrupts. This exchange—
Lipless, drunk kiss me, be my. Conjunction but—
Begging, lying eyes. These corners open the range.
The past interrupts this exchange
Recognition: angel winged from words
Begs, lies. Eyeing these corners. The open range
Denied. Sleep turns
Recognition into angel, winged from words
Flutters, flocks in full dread
denied, sleeps, turns
begins, wren. In eyes pick at crumbs of bed.
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Hints
......2445. Half the body remaining white
......2446. A piece of tooth in a loaf
...............of bread, a stone dachshund
...............on a child’s stone
......2447. The tooth and the milk
...............from the moon. Half the body
......2448. A piece of tooth placed between two adults in sleep
......2449. A hot bath up to the chin
...............A few pieces of clear red cinder
...............A very pretty dish of oranges
......2450. Hectic flushes and distension:
...............poor woman, following language.
...............The milk in every letter, half
...............the fingers dipped in brandy.
......2451. The past accidentally overlaid.
......2452. Quasi-life, satisfactorily established as life. The white
...............friction along the spine. The wet state of things.
......2453. The flies know what they want.
......2454. Unvitalized, uncivilized. Plunged up to the neck.
......2455. Language as a delightful task. Moan for drink,
..............stupefying Nature. Something to suck.
......2456. A stone dashed on a child’s stone. The flies
...............know what they want, but the willow wavers.
......2457. A dim and glistening appearance
...............appeared—for the moment—to be dead
......2458. Dipped in brandy,
...............powdered scammony.
......2459. A dessert-spoonful.
...............The infant appeared for the moment.
......2460. Persistency in practice. Superincumbent bedclothes.
..............The verdict head-blanket. The vital principles.
......2461.. Soft linen.
......2462.. Secreted nutriment, deriving its vitality from a delightful task.
......2463.. The milk appearing for a moment to be half the whole length of the spine.
......2464.. Bran sewed into a bag
..............long continued death
..............this is of the greatest importance.
......2465.. sleep who
..............called out
......2466.. hidden language,
..............convulsive plunges of the arms
..............believe there is no harbor
......2467.. scald out
......2468.. The hinder part of the head
..............a small pad of lint. Bran
..............sewed into a bag.
......2469.. Drop warm water
......2470. This is of the greatest importance.
......2471.. A wet shift. A key suddenly
..............dropped down the back. Moonlit
..............doorway starlit plain. A branch
..............inwards and outwards.
......2472. .Appearing, for the moment, to be a bed.
......2473. .Do not be sparing of your trouble, warm
..............vinegar, warm rags smeared with lard, warm
..............bread coarsely chopped.
......2473. .The past accidentally overlaid.
......2474. Moonless
..............moon. A stone
..............child. Fluid applications
..............to the body. Hot terra cotta
......2475. .break them to pieces, empty out the seeds
......2476. .A delightful task
......2477. .Cures for pallor, not puerperal fever:
..............suck through a quill. Sweet nitre
..............hour one.
......2478. .Hinder white ash
..............in the arbor. Half
..............branch cuts a crescent,
..............what can be done to bring him to again?
......2479. .A switch. A shift. A key suddenly
Note: Much of the above text is taken from The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton.
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Emily Anderson's fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Caketrain, and the Indelible Kitchen. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently lives and works in Madrid.
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Pantoum
Begin: wren in eyes: pick at crumbs of bed
Dashed, departed, sleep
Flutters, flocks in full dread:
Drops indivisible, water: sieved, named seep
Dashes, departs—sleep:
Carousing, out looking for love or what
Drops indivisible: Water. Sieved name, seep
Lipless drunk—kiss me. Be my conjunction, but
Carousing, out looking for love or what-
ever the past interrupts. This exchange—
Lipless, drunk kiss me, be my. Conjunction but—
Begging, lying eyes. These corners open the range.
The past interrupts this exchange
Recognition: angel winged from words
Begs, lies. Eyeing these corners. The open range
Denied. Sleep turns
Recognition into angel, winged from words
Flutters, flocks in full dread
denied, sleeps, turns
begins, wren. In eyes pick at crumbs of bed.
**
Hints
......2445. Half the body remaining white
......2446. A piece of tooth in a loaf
...............of bread, a stone dachshund
...............on a child’s stone
......2447. The tooth and the milk
...............from the moon. Half the body
......2448. A piece of tooth placed between two adults in sleep
......2449. A hot bath up to the chin
...............A few pieces of clear red cinder
...............A very pretty dish of oranges
......2450. Hectic flushes and distension:
...............poor woman, following language.
...............The milk in every letter, half
...............the fingers dipped in brandy.
......2451. The past accidentally overlaid.
......2452. Quasi-life, satisfactorily established as life. The white
...............friction along the spine. The wet state of things.
......2453. The flies know what they want.
......2454. Unvitalized, uncivilized. Plunged up to the neck.
......2455. Language as a delightful task. Moan for drink,
..............stupefying Nature. Something to suck.
......2456. A stone dashed on a child’s stone. The flies
...............know what they want, but the willow wavers.
......2457. A dim and glistening appearance
...............appeared—for the moment—to be dead
......2458. Dipped in brandy,
...............powdered scammony.
......2459. A dessert-spoonful.
...............The infant appeared for the moment.
......2460. Persistency in practice. Superincumbent bedclothes.
..............The verdict head-blanket. The vital principles.
......2461.. Soft linen.
......2462.. Secreted nutriment, deriving its vitality from a delightful task.
......2463.. The milk appearing for a moment to be half the whole length of the spine.
......2464.. Bran sewed into a bag
..............long continued death
..............this is of the greatest importance.
......2465.. sleep who
..............called out
......2466.. hidden language,
..............convulsive plunges of the arms
..............believe there is no harbor
......2467.. scald out
......2468.. The hinder part of the head
..............a small pad of lint. Bran
..............sewed into a bag.
......2469.. Drop warm water
......2470. This is of the greatest importance.
......2471.. A wet shift. A key suddenly
..............dropped down the back. Moonlit
..............doorway starlit plain. A branch
..............inwards and outwards.
......2472. .Appearing, for the moment, to be a bed.
......2473. .Do not be sparing of your trouble, warm
..............vinegar, warm rags smeared with lard, warm
..............bread coarsely chopped.
......2473. .The past accidentally overlaid.
......2474. Moonless
..............moon. A stone
..............child. Fluid applications
..............to the body. Hot terra cotta
......2475. .break them to pieces, empty out the seeds
......2476. .A delightful task
......2477. .Cures for pallor, not puerperal fever:
..............suck through a quill. Sweet nitre
..............hour one.
......2478. .Hinder white ash
..............in the arbor. Half
..............branch cuts a crescent,
..............what can be done to bring him to again?
......2479. .A switch. A shift. A key suddenly
Note: Much of the above text is taken from The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton.
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return to sawbuck 1.8
**
Emily Anderson's fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Caketrain, and the Indelible Kitchen. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently lives and works in Madrid.
