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Alice Fulton

“Make It New”

“Make It New”

“Make It New”

I find it helpful to imagine writing in a blizzard
            with every inscription

designed to prevent snow
            crystals from drifting in.

Avoid the hive mind. Go fly a kite,
raise a stained glass window in the sky.

It’s the opposite of making love to drudgery,
            what I do for a dying.

      Remove the bitter sediment
trapped in the brewer. It will be new

whether you make it new
or not. It will be full of neo-

shadows. Full of then — both past and next,
iridescent with suspense. Remember

            time is not the treasure revealer.
More a midge larva creeping

through a waterfall releasing
suction feet. The curiosity rover

      lands on Mars! New is a hooligan.
It breaks the reckoning frame and rests

in pieces. Let me collect its DNA
from the tears on your desk.
Alice Fulton

Alice Fulton

(Verenigde Staten, 1952)

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“Make It New”

I find it helpful to imagine writing in a blizzard
            with every inscription

designed to prevent snow
            crystals from drifting in.

Avoid the hive mind. Go fly a kite,
raise a stained glass window in the sky.

It’s the opposite of making love to drudgery,
            what I do for a dying.

      Remove the bitter sediment
trapped in the brewer. It will be new

whether you make it new
or not. It will be full of neo-

shadows. Full of then — both past and next,
iridescent with suspense. Remember

            time is not the treasure revealer.
More a midge larva creeping

through a waterfall releasing
suction feet. The curiosity rover

      lands on Mars! New is a hooligan.
It breaks the reckoning frame and rests

in pieces. Let me collect its DNA
from the tears on your desk.

“Make It New”

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Gemeente Rotterdam
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Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
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