Amie Zimmerman

Objective

Take the foot, for example, as the accessible metaphor

& since it has now been mentioned, spoiled. Conceptual thought

starts as a lie; the permit was paid for just not on time. The structure

of self is that each person packed into this room needs

less space than me; how I wag my pallbearer’s head

at any less than full collapse; how there is purpose

to cartography beyond counting the measure. I almost left!

Year of jubilation! My practice of writing about desire for silence

does not bring me closer to the totality of perfect rest

or sincerity—minor/major/otherwise/in. It was good noodles 

under stuttered brown light. My understanding cast itself 

into the line drawing we inhabit—pushing, pushing.

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Amie Zimmerman lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Sixth Finch, West Branch, Seneca Review, Salt Hill, and Paperbag, among others. She has two chapbooks, Oyster (REALITY BEACH) and Compliance (Essay Press), and is an editor for YesYes Books.