The world, how
Martha Rhodes
The world, how greenesses
pop up. I’d forgotten. To be
found millions of years later,
mountains of bones ground down.
The tiniest with the largest.
You rise to the top
from the Great Rift
to meet me again.
About this poem
“‘The world, how’ is an excerpt from a book-length sequence of poems in progress entitled ‘The Thin Wall.’ The collection is comprised, in part, of disrupted narratives that ride to the page through short lyrics.” – Martha Rhodes
About Martha Rhodes
Martha Rhodes is the author of “The Beds” (Autumn House Press, 2012). She teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
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(c) 2015 Martha Rhodes. Originally published by the Academy of American Poets, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
