The Poetry Project

Camila Valle

"St. Mark's Church" is written at the top of a postcard in big dark blue hollow letters. A poem is written under it in black ink, all lowercase. It reads:

a poet's son
speaks of the work
of love I sit
under the virgin
reading an angel kneeling
by her side a dove above
so below am I
the only one who would
call my mother
a poet I write
my own annunciation

An outline of a dove in flight is drawn in light blue ink on the left-hand side of the postcard, nestled between the title and the start of the poem. A green and light blue drawing of flowers sits on the right-hand side, toward the bottom of the postcard.
The title of the poem, "for Elio Schneeman," is handwritten in light blue ink at the top of the postcard. Under it, the poem in orange and black ink, centered on the postcard, forming a column:

PAMELA
late-night BREATHING
READING
Pamela

an ad on craigslist:
FREE DESK,
BELONGED TO FAMOUS
POET

a discussion on
how famous
if famous

you can get to him
following the names
paths & paths & paths

songs of heroin
love & pools
of blue

look at this other life
this FOUND LIFE
you are
walking down

The poem is surrounded by a collage of birds in flight, a butterfly, a flower, and blue and grey rounded shapes.

Work from Obtuse Angles, Tentative Skies, Awkward Chops with Edmund Berrigan

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