The World Map Poem by Marjorie Welish

Prospect in readiness, together with
the annexation of processes,
revealing—dissembles
landslides or pure lyric
by which to complete the fragmented prayer 'as intended.'
Dumping gravel
on emancipated frontiers ...
If H. B. really were
darkening a bildungsroman of irony, he would say of R.R.
he is second,
that he is the second most interesting philosopher,
or that the tenderness of located
skimming stones
across pain and dust
'helps us get what we antecedently decided.'
A landslide
idling in the mirror . . .