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    Wolf Centos
    Wolf Centos
    Wolf Centos
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    Wolf Centos

    By Simone Muench

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    What is important is to avoid
    the time allotted for disavowels
    as the livid wound
    leaves a trace leaves an abscess
    takes its contraction for those clouds
    that dip thunder & vanish
    like rose leaves in closed jars.
    Age approaches, slowly. But it cannot
    crystal bone into thin air.
    The small hours open their wounds for me.
    This is a woman's confession:
    I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me.

    Simone Muench is the author of Orange Crush, Lampblack & Ash, The Air Lost in Breathing, and Disappearing Address. She teaches at Lewis University in Chicago, Illinois.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSarabande Books
    Release dateAug 4, 2014
    ISBN9781936747887
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      Wolf Centos - Simone Muench

      © 2014 by Simone Muench

      FIRST EDITION

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Please direct inquiries to:

      Managing Editor

      Sarabande Books, Inc.

      2234 Dundee Road, Suite 200

      Louisville, KY 40205

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Muench, Simone, 1969–

      [Poems. Selections]

      Wolf centos / Simone Muench.

      pages cm

      Summary: Centos are a patchwork form that originated around 300 AD; WOLF CENTOS places poets in conversation with one another across centuries and continents. In this volume Muench sutures her poems together with the motifs of the wolf, language, loss, desire, and transformation. The ultimate knowledge of these poems is that as we age and experience loss, we must retain our wildness inside of us— Provided by publisher.

      I. Title.

      PS3563.U358W68 2014

      811'.54—dc23

      2013048734

      Cover art based on the piece Caminos de los Perros, by Kim Ambriz.

      Cover and interior layout by Kirkby Gann Tittle.

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-88-7

      Sarabande Books is a nonprofit literary organization.

      CONTENTS

      1.The question of the wolves turns & turns

      [I saw my life a wolf loping along the road]

      [Sea-blue, shot through]

      [I transformed into this thing, this beautiful]

      [Outside the new world winters in grand dark]

      [Very quick. Very intense, like a wolf at a live heart]

      [When tenderness seems tired]

      [Who will take the madness from the trees]

      [Stunned by gold, we see coming]

      [In the space of a half-open gold door]

      [We: spectators, always, everywhere]

      2.Desire discriminates & language discriminates

      [Desire discriminates & language]

      [It was a desire rather than a boat]

      [In moon-swallowed shadows]

      [Under somber firs two wolves mingled]

      [There are wolves in the next room]

      [I have lost my being in

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