Now *here's* a Rae Armantrout poem I can sink my teeth into.

Unbidden


The ghosts swarm.
They speak as one
person. Each
loves you. Each
has left something
undone.

•

Did the palo verde
blush yellow
all at once?

Today's edges
are so sharp

they might cut
anything that moved.

•

The way a lost
word

will come back
unbidden.

You're not interested
in it now,

only
in knowing
where it's been.


-- Rae Armantrout
from Versed, new this month from Wesleyan.