Partly. Rae Armantrout

Money Talks 162

       Long Green 163

       Number 165

       FROM Just Saying

       Scripture 169

       Instead 171

       Dress Up 172

       Accounts 173

       Ghosted 175

       Spent 177

       Haunts 178

       The Look 180

       My Apocalypse 181

       Arrivals 182

       Transactions 184

       Scale 186

       And 188

       Treatment 189

       Experts 190

       Between Islands 192

       Luster 194

       Progress 196

       Bardos 198

       Mother’s Day 200

       Meant 202

       FROM Itself

       Chirality 205

       A Conceit 206

       Conclusion 208

       Pitch 211

       Eden 212

       Sonnet 3 214

       Itself 215

       Flo 216

       Sponsor 217

       Personhood 218

       Occurrence 220

       Headlong 221

       Believing 222

       Head 223

       Control 224

       Rituals 226

       The Eye 227

       The New Zombie 229

       Expression 231

       Lounge Area 232

       The Times 233

       Acknowledgments for New Poems in Partly 235

       New Poems

       Legacy

      “Do words just pop

      into your head?”

      Some may go

      unexploded.

      –

      “Have you thought much

      about your legacy?”

      I’m a legacy

      prisoner.

      No I’m not.

      –

      “What do you call precious?”

      The precious doesn’t

      get around much

      so it stays small.

      Or it orbits

      the same small

      pronoun,

      a kid

      on a carousel.

      “Look at me!”

      It fiddles

      with itself.

      But I’ve got bigger things

      to pick up

      and put down.

       In Front

      Tree in new leaf

      in front of

      a brick building

      with narrow

      white-wood balconies

      slung under panes

      of glass

      in which