Breakfast Poetry

Jorie Graham: Self-Portrait as the Gesture Between Them


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A full reading of the poet Jorie Graham's Self-Portrait as the Gesture Between Them: "The gesture like a fruit torn from a limb, torn swiftly...The rip in the fabric where the action begins, the opening of the narrow passage...But what else could they have done, these two, sick of beginning, revolving in place like a thing seen...as the apple builds inside the limb, as rain builds in the atmosphere, as the lateness accumulates until it finally is, as the meaning of the story builds...scribbling at the edges of her body until it must be told...so that she had to turn and touch him to give it away...a new direction, an offshoot, the limb going on elsewhere, and liking that error, a feeling of being capable because an error, of being wrong perhaps altogether wrong...and loving that error...that break from perfection...out of nowhere to share the day." - Jorie Graham. 

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Breakfast PoetryBy Anne Marie Vivienne

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