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September light 3
No hour 4
The First Remove 5
A quiet skin 6
As when red sky 7
The mind would pierce them 8
Yet this may be so delicate 9
The Second Remove 10
But couldn't cross 11
Hidden liberty 12
How oddly lawful 13
The Third Remove 14
Expeditions 15
Tossed-back 16
No clockwork prayer 17
This austere and fierce machinery 18
The Fourth Remove 19
And soon scattering 20
Genome 21
The Fifth Remove 25
What is this chain 26
Unlike the winged recoil 27
Comfort binds itself 28
A crisp whiteness 29
The Sixth Remove 30
Rope-burn 31
Did not foresee 32
No summer as yet 33
Or resolve into a calm 34
The Seventh Remove 35
No purchase 36
As when an otherwise opens 37
The Eighth Remove 38
Maelstroms 39
The cells in their distant otherness 40
Mysteriously standing 41
The Ninth Remove 42
As waxen cells imprinted 43
This white unswaying place 44
A ragged fabric 45
The Tenth Remove 46
Each view intercepted 47
An alien hand 48
The Eleventh Remove 49
Sync-pulses 50
Audio-waves 51
The Twelfth Remove 52
That I might step 53
So many bending threads 54
The Thirteenth Remove 55
But there's another leaf 56
Late summer 57
Red bloom 60
This confused manner of the dust 61
The slender chromosomal strands 65
The Fourteenth Remove 66
And water lies plainly 67
Retreating figure 68
Doesn't govern the perplexities 71
The Fifteenth Remove 72
This green, this blueness 73
The Sixteenth Remove 74
The Seventeenth Remove 75
Notes 77
Acknowledgments 79
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George Adele
reviewed Captivity on June 09, 2011
Captivity
1. Frost, then ridged snow.
   The body can't rest when it's in pain. Outside: hills closed as the cells' glass secrecies,Â
Waste spaces etched and fissured with genetic script. (The mind would pierce them)
2. Â Extremity/Planting itself in me until I am most Northerly and lost--all tundra-cold whiteness and mistrust.
Winter-taught, ignorant, unsolved. (The Second Remove)
3. December night. The north winds shift above the icy hill; (Hidden liberty)
4. How alien, how chilling, this austere and fierce machinery of thinking. (This austere and fierce machinery)
5. In the poem Genome, Sheck uses brackets in partial lines to suggest the effect of poetry translated from ancient mss. that are missing words, lines, or phrases do to damage. Sheck credits Guy Davenport's translation of Sappho fragment 24.
[ Â Â Â Â Â Â ]
[ Â ] that labor [ Â Â ]
[ Â ] to sing [ Â Â Â Â ]
[ Â Â Â ] a storm wind [ Â Â Â ]Â
[ Â Â ] and no pain [ Â Â Â ]
 What survives is mutilated, torn--on scraps of papyrus/
   Used to mummify crocodiles, on pottery shards...
6. Â Thinking is a truceless act. (Comfort binds itself)
7. There are so many thresholds in the body.
   The cells in their distant otherness inside me.( The cells in their distant otherness)
8. Â Â Â How to speak of the icy cave-like place I lately feel,
Its white reluctance dividing me from all things I desire and see.
9. And now this January whiteness destroys the covered-over of itself. (So many bending threads)
10. In so biting a cold, the Norths in me hardening, sun stripped of crown. (The Thirteenth Remove)
The purpose in collecting these notes was to try and get a grasp of some imagery that seems to be common between these poems and Sheck's novel "A Monster's Notes". Specifically, she uses a lot of images of cold, piercing cold, the North, frozen wastes, etc.Â
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