The Believer - Second Person

JANUARY 2010

SECOND PERSON

A NEW POEM

by Rae Armantrout

Lemons, lanterns
hang late
into the evening.

But you are known
for your voluptuous retreat,

for leaving
your absence
on the air,

illicit, thin.

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Rae Armantrout’s recent book of poems, Versed, was published by Wesleyan. Armantrout received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 2008. She teaches at UC San Diego.

JANUARY 2010

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