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robert carey




THE LIVING DEBT: A POEM

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A stream in a sunny valley Generous, pink-and-blue clouds pass over a dusty trail Clouds move over a ridge
























Billowing clouds White spray of snow plowed by a train
























A violet dawn or twilight from a train window The wake of a boat's passage Breaching humpback whale
































An iceberg calving just behind the boat The cliffside collapses in dust and snow
































A timelapse of Pine Island Glacier melting Sand dunes dancing over several hours or days A patch of prairie grass seen through a dancing frame
































Dry tall grass by a river bend A somewhat dry riverbed from an archival photo
































A crowded and busy clothing factory Smokestacks pumping into the sky A toast inside a pub
































White women under flags, turn-of-the-century Black women picking cotton, the same era
































A bridge over still water A farmer tilling his field Waves of grass moving in the wind
































A crawling beetle in the hay Cotton candy being gathered up and consumed











Notes:
This poem assembles GIFs found on giphy.com through associative-logic searching. They're arranged in the order of their discovery in renga-like stanzas, with subterranean lines of poetry written in response to each image-in-sequence.












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