a poem in progress

i probably won't finish this poem,

i'll lift a few lines from another

incomplete piece. & so the transposition

continues & i don't know how to write

myself out of it. look at this word, hanging

like bait on a hook, fishing for something

that is not language. metaphorically

speaking, what is this poem about? nothing,

it's an unnatural kind of poetry, a poem

with plastic eyes, a line written like a…

what's the word? do you remember

the blanket that day? hanging on the line

like cotton shreds of memory

trapped like wind in curtains?

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Stevi-Lee Alver is an Australian writer and tattoo artist. She lives in the middle of Brazil with her wife. She loves bush walks and waterfalls but misses the ocean.

'a poem in progress' was written after Clarice Lispector - The Foreign Legion