Bateman, Micah

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University of Montana

CutBank Volume 1 Issue 71 CutBank 71 Article 15 Summer 2009 Harbinger of Things Already Insinuated Micah Bateman Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Bateman, Micah (2009) "Harbinger of Things Already Insinuated," CutBank: Vol. 1 : Iss. 71 , Article 15. Available at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank/vol1/iss71/15 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in CutBank by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. MICAH BATEMANHarbinger o f Things Already InsinuatedH ow awkward, this m arriage of his dough to her rolling pin. T he  effluvial record of his incompletes,their unflattering juxtaposition. W ho placed her here?Bare as chicken bone, brittle as the casings of a Nazi shell.W hat stilled her on his bedside, ashiver in fall-out- of-winter? D am nation, that time spills down lines.If only springtime and the leaves still t inder and cinder.If not the unbearable palsy of the shepherd’s crookof her, the S of disease, her eyes not onyx trinkets: tractors of slow-moving molecules, lightning down the wall.I f  tiny erector pili like terra  cotta soldiers did their doom duty first. If  else 1930 and the irresistible omenof o-man-o-m an. O r  if like she he were ethereally thin, the air might have com m unicated with some success. Hemight have felt her usher in the cold. Seen the en jam bm ent of photons in her Casper quickness. Oscillated fast enoughto dissolve through walls. Stowed himself away in the belly of something that could fly, to Denm ark, to see whom before.80

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