The Ground
Anne Gorrick
at the foot of the cross is level
always wins
The combat vehicles of fashion week
their ground effects body kits
He was wrong to see his shadow
grooming that arena
Lava, Calvary, Jamaican ginger
your luminous isolator
your neutral hookup electrical
Open up and swallow these images
You can’t unswallow them
The plug broke off
quiver
rattlers banded with electrons
The ground state configuration of fluorine is?
The ground state configuration of tungsten is?
The tissue in a leaf turns crimson
Half Moon Bay unpacks
its emergencies in waves
X-ray machine, yellow jackets
You touch yourself in front of the computer
Ground yourself before touching the computer
You are standing in your own beef
Zero sycamores
Zero mosques
Zero flags
Anne Gorrick is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of A’s Visuality (BlazeVOX, 2015), I-Formation (Book 2) (Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK, 2012), I-Formation (Book 1) (Shearsman, 2010), Kyotologic (Shearsman, 2008) and An Extended Environment with Metrical and/or Dimensional Properties (E·ratio Editions, 2013). She collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book, “Swans, the ice,” she said, funded by the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She co-edited, with Sam Truitt, an anthology of adventurous Hudson Valley poetry: In|Filtration: A Hudson Valley Salt Line (Station Hill, Barrytown, NY, 2014). She curates the reading series, Cadmium Text, which focuses on innovative writing from in and around New York’s Hudson Valley. She also co-curates the online poetry journal Peep/Show with poet Lynn Behrendt, which is a “taxonomic exercise in textual and visual seriality.” Images of her visual art can be found at The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows. Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, New York.
