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Scorpion Letters

by
Mark DuCharme
Mark DuCharme’s sixth full-length book of poetry (in addition to many chapbooks) is *Here, Which Is Also a Place*, new from Unlikely Books. Other recent publications include his work of poet’s theater, *We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film*, published by The Operating System. His poetry has appeared widely in such venues as *BlazeVOX, Blazing Stadium, Caliban Online, Colorado Review, Eratio, First Intensity, Indefinite Space, New American Writing, Noon, Otoliths, Shiny, Talisman, Unlikely Stories, Word/ for Word*, and *Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary.* A recipient of the Neodata Endowment in Literature and the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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from Scorpion Letters

I move very slowly through the pages the striations of this room. We live in a womb of sound. I am an animal, though I have no voice, no mechanism for freeing myself from the activity of these natal selves, these premonitions too obvious for shock operators. The form of the page is the form of night. We are useless when we waken. When our preternatural selves become dependent on trigger mechanisms. Loan me a payload, an uneasy breezeway. Can I withstand sitting here, meeting the like-minded— the ones intending to pretend?