Thumbnail image from the cover of Philip Metres's collection Shrapnel Maps
the very act of [ ] a thing with edges
I had a hand in producing the [ ]
and no idea what I was doing
late one night my commander
led me to a room
and piles of [ ] everywhere
handed me a dried-out marker
unfurled a [ ] I’d never seen before
me to trace certain lines and shapes
just make them clearer, he said
a geo-body the shape of
Arafat glared at the [ ] in silence
“You want me to accept cantons?
You want to destroy me.”
with edges a body and the necessity
of defending
