Moolten, David

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Birmingham Poetry Review Volume 48 BPR - Spring 2021 Article 50 2021 "Annie, Annie Are You Okay?" David Moolten Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/bpr  Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Moolten, David (2021) ""Annie, Annie Are You Okay?"," Birmingham Poetry Review: Vol. 48, Article 50. Available at: https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/bpr/vol48/iss2021/50 This content has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of the UAB Digital Commons, and is provided as a free open access item. All inquiries regarding this item or the UAB Digital Commons should be directed to the UAB Libraries Office of Scholarly Communication. 1 2 6     B P RDavid Moolten “Annie, Annie Are You Okay?”I could have yelled Sous le pont Mirabeaustarting CPR. I might have knelt by the Seine where she lay like an opera glove in lost-and-found, L’Inconnue, the stranger, whose mild, ingenious face became an objet d’art, then a plastic doll, once factories got infatuated,I felt like a dummy kissing  while people watched. Just anotherfished-out suicide left in a window for passing crowds to browse, she taught Apollinaire to sigh, and Celan, so lonely in Paris after the camps, hung her death mask on his wall. He made a man for years out of the German tonguethen toppled from a bridgeinto the same romantic slough, saying poems for him like breathing for anyone else, doing mouth-to-mouth with the air.1Moolten: "Annie, Annie Are You Okay?"Published by UAB Digital Commons, 2021

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