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DEAR YOU
by Quinn Latimer

Your marrow of disinterest leads to bone of interest,
shallow taps lead to high-pitched sounds: mesquite,

mosquito, ring? Pride has covered me like a blanket
in the past and I wish to tuck you in, as you offer up

meats, roots, plastics. Gallop.
The sharp bone of shoulder has nothing to do with me now --

if only. You say None, and like appropriate technology,
the desperation -- pipes groomed so -- does not transfer well.

Wipe away the please, careful not to swallow the bones
as slender as hair; for I would harden, I would deny the mend.

And you as third person -- Him -- does not work, you cannot
be anything but my address when it is me calling.

I drop my ball and you will not chase it, choosing instead
to follow my eyes which have dropped also (chatter),

are moving towards the water where the current will
knock--pull them away from you.

--From Me

Quinn Latimer is the Publications Coordinator at Art21, a documentary series on contemporary art for PBS, and recently coordinated the publication of Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, published by Abrams and currently in bookstores. Her writing on the work of Matthew Barney, Barry McGee, and Shahzia Sikander, among others, can be seen at www.pbs.org/art21.