RESOLUTION / REVOLUTION: Sarah Sarai

Sarah Sarai lives on a bridge under a cave in the eastern quadrant of the portion marked “Odds 'n Ends.” Time draws nigh for her to publish a new collection to comfort her first collection (The Future Is Happy, BlazeVOX[books]). She is a member of the Occupy Language assemblage rising from ashes of Zucotti Park. Both of the poems included here consider the word resolve, with its impossibilities and its maybe more.

I Resolve To

Buy cheap, sell now.
Buy sheep, sell ewe.
Buy ewe, shear me.
Talk the talk
walk the keep
keep you.

I resolve to
shear my nethers,
then Esau, a woolly fellow.
Ewe want to buy a bridge?
I resolve to sell you one.
Ewe cannot walk this bridge.
This is a bridge you cannot walk.

I resolve to walk the bridge
and shear ewe within
an inch of my wife.
She is sheared fun.

There's a bridge on my teeth.
It spans incisors.
My teeth resolve to represent.
Pearly as Heaven's gate
(or gates, we're not sure),
they resolve to take ewe in,
my little wayfarer.
My teeth know things.
So would you if you lived in a cave.

I resolve to live in a cave
with a bridge, walk the line,
brace myself for the next trick
or for ewe. I resolve to buy braces,
for ewe.



Two Dreams Hovering Insect Wings Above Me

First I lie across your lap
for everyone to see for comfort.
Second we kiss I pause you touch my hair
and wave good-bye in one graceful sweep.

I wonder who I am in either dream and
talk myself through the threshold of the new day
archived by winged beasts who know life
as a slow volar flash of something close to pleasure.


Berfrois, “The Avoirdupois Chic”
http://www.berfrois.com/2011/11/avoirdupois-chic-sarah-sarai/
Boston Review, “So Tender Beauty” and “From Love, Imagination”
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.4/sarah_sarai.php and
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.4/sarah_sarai2.php

POOL, “Commerce for the Good of the Peoples” and more
http://www.poolpoetry.com/poeteight.html

Scythe, “No Need for a Door” and more
http://scytheliteraryjournal.com/issue-vi.php

Redheaded Stepchild, “Blame It on Family”
http://redheadedmag.com/poetry/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=268:blame-it-on-family-&catid=36:poetry&Itemid=59

Fogged Clarity, "Experiential Philosophy"
http://foggedclarity.com/2009/03/experiential-philosophy/

Minnesota Review, “Further Arguments”
http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns68/sarai.shtml
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