← v19n2, Fall 2020Poetry · Volume 19, Number 2
“Merleau-Ponty by G.C. Waldrep
acts of description
inspiral,
wind’s vivid angle
against the eave’s
blade, dulled
an orchard knife
the grasp remembers
as praise
offered to distant
fathers, strengths
pluck
the fruit of the wind
test its nave
each tiny house
anent the big house
faith built
surrounded by
acts of description