Poem of the Week by Leslie Scalapino

Leslie Scalapino
1940-2010













what it

many


people

want

authority?


she doesn't

[doesn't want it]

[is no ascendancy]




from The Animal is in the World like Water in Water, a collaboration between Leslie Scalapino and Kiki Smith (Granary Books, 2009), excerpted in War and Peace #4: Vision and Text (O Books, 2009).