Exchange - By Mara Lemanis
Exchange
Between
what is
desired
and the one
desiring
stands
a rate of exchange
Between
me
and you
what is
exchanged
between me
and the life
that stalks me
what is
my stasis
what is
my entropy
What is
the exchange rate
between what
the earth yields
and what I plunder
What do I give
when I take
what I will
There is
a harvest
between my body
and the body
pushed out from me
There is
a covenant
between
the words I speak
and the voice
of the water
trickling my name
Who exchanges me
with the rock
I stand on
moving me
between
moon and sun
What exchanges me
with the time
I spend
in a world
in due time
out of time
Mara Lemanis
Mara Lemanis
Biography: Mara Lemanis is a literary scholar. Her essays have been selected for 20th CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM and are included in undergraduate student textbooks in the U.S.
She has worked as an archivist for Historical Preservation and with the IRC, assisting refugees in Oakland, California.
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