PROVENANCE
AND MANUSCRIPTS
from, SUPER
UNDONE BLUE
She owns the sense of what it means not to be him
Bound inextricably to these walls
dark and wet with breath
coverings of veils and chants
She owns it but not the text
she owns the outsides of the words
both jagged and round vowels
the sharp serifs belong elsewhere
Surmising the abundance of verbs
we looked for her on the sides of buildings, the
symbol of a stone mason’s
double axe under
then under and facing sideways
the inconsequential still leave a mark
THEOTOKOS
of the CHALKE GATE
from, Iconoclast
the secret of the ladies is the
image under the house
rescue Theodora, Irene
the virgin who hasn’t served
hasn’t offered up the union
cast in bronze and sold
chipped from stone and drilled
the clatter under the bed
the head comes off
the genitals
nose
subversive portable reliquary
Sarah Anne Cox is the author of Arrival, Krupsaya 2002 and Parcel, O Books 2006, and Super Undone Blue, Dusie 2016. She lives in San Francisco where she teaches, windsurfs, and snowboards with her homeschooled children.
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