By Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Drawing on 4 a long time of labor and together with new poems released the following for the 1st time, this feature of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry screens the intense luminosity attribute of her style—its smooth, meticulous commentary, nice scenic mind's eye, and strange measure of convenience with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux.
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You look down on a break-up of little clouds over the plain, as if the house you are in suddenly rises, to relieve the nervous pressure of light. Twenty miles of frozen ridges become a lace of moss and puddles too flat to see and which are breathing. Here is a snowdrift that has begun to melt. Here is an old woman talking about a young person who is androgynous, across a distortion of radio waves, trying to locate you. She is only moving from her knees down. The snow becomes light at the end of winter.
It would not decay. The body is the space of the point of a moment in your seeing him or hearing him. You can calm yourself by moving toward one of these points, the way you move along your own breath. 42 6 You could try to make some fog into a piece of white cloth. This is impossible. Though it is visible, it is not a concrete substance. She tried to make a delicate cloud into a cloth. She could not, so that is why he is staying here. Or she could try to alternate dissolving in the light with dissolving in the dark, for speed.
From above, I can’t tell what distance away it is. 41 5 It has no shape or color that is stable, as if I had fallen asleep and a long bridge appeared, where my relatives are like companions crossing a bridge. Her friends and family are like people you meet at the marketplace. When you look at your husband, you think of a floating flag of the roof. Even though he is your husband, he is not stable. Anyone believes what anyone says about you. This is a realm or field in which other people exist in subtler forms than the body in daylight.