Proposal by Andrea Baker

I’m really enjoying finding poetry that seems to relate, in an off-handed way, to hosting and the process arts.Here is Andrea Baker, from the new issue of TYPO 9:

PROPOSAL

Each
point was also a center

at the grief

which was
many-centered

and gatherings hungered

in the throat
and at the mouth

of each many-grief

which all foamed
to begin

a new burden

to lay fresh
on the world

so
I set out a bowl
for light to rest in

as long
as the long breath pushing

but what is random
never quiets

and the will was random
was pulling

the shadow into darkness

and spreading itself

or wrapping its own
wonder

content
and fresh
about the world

PROPOSAL

Small crumbs of darkness

swept about the field

as wind campaigned against
the breath

and in the heat of the breath

laid down its own burdens

which the wind insists
are small