The Sleep That Changed Everything. Lee Ann Brown

      

       The Sleep That Changed Everything

      WESLEYAN POETRY

      LEE ANN BROWN

      The Sleep That Changed Everything

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

      Published by Wesleyan University Press,

      Middletown, CT 05459

      ©2003 by Lee Ann Brown

      All rights reserved

      Designed by Dean Bornstein

      Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Brown, Lee Ann.

      The sleep that changed everything / Lee Ann Brown.

      p. cm.—(Wesleyan poetry)

      ISBN 0–8195–6621–7 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0–8195–6622–5

      (pbk.: alk. paper)

      I. Title. II. Series.

      PS3552.R6932S57 2003

      811'.6—dc21

      2002155482

      Cover illustration: “Southern Belle,” by Sally Egbert.

      To

      You

      the Other

      to

      Poets

      to

      Come

      and to

      Stephanie Jane Harrison (1964–1986)

      Harry Smith (1923–1991)

      Marjorie Keller (1951–1994)

      Joe Brainard (1942–1994)

      Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)

      Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)

      Agnes Lee Dunlop Wiley

      my maternal grandmother

      (New Year’s Eve, 1902–Valentine’s Day, 1999)

      CONTENTS

Acknowledgments	IX
INSUFFLATION
Auspicious Window	3
A Call for Vertical Integration in the Eye of the Storm	4
Cometary	5
Encyclopedia Botanica	6
Insufflation	7
Poet’s Complaint	13
Respond to me	15
shiny jewel eye	16
Whitman Poem “Come…”	18
ESTIVATION
Convolute	21
Involute	22
Obvolute	25
Quincunx	26
Revolute	27
feathery stitches +++	28
Rose Clothed Ahead	29
VIBRATORY ODES
Alone	33
Alpha Beta Catalogue	34
Ballad of Amiri B. (60’s)	35
Ballad of New Orleans	37
Ballad of Vertical Integration	38
Car Games	39
Catullus Couch	40
Dear Rod Moth	42
Esmerelda Suite
Coronary Decades to Crown Heights	43
The Current Scene Continued Which I Love to See	45
Desire Device	47
Esmerelda Suite	49
Poison of Gold’s Fly-By-Night Signatures	53
Hannah’s Method	55
How Glad	56
Joe Acrostics	57
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