Andrew Zawacki
CPC Readings
Thursday, March 6, 2003
with Traci Dant, Duriel Harris, and Patricia McMillen
The Art Institute of Chicago
Poetry by Andrew Zawacki
"Any Other Eviction, Than The Frequent" – Andrew Zawacki
“If it be warfare, let it be mistress
and midnight up that slope,
not reticent in a weather
of withdrawal, its salmon-roe tint,
the shabby grass it grazes”
– Andrew Zawacki
"[Begins in interruption...]"
Begins in interruption:
an ambulance bell at the center
of sleep, the room tilts
sideways, furniture slides,
an octet of amber blue
verres à liqueur, one with a cut
at the lip, clatters as a quaalude
light in tatters mattes the
curtains ormolu:
I miss you
is what I want to say
like a rocket
stocked from the Reagan
years, its radar gone haywire,
wiring fried but
live inside a bunker of some
private Soviet
Union you & I —