
Claire Donato lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Fou, and Harp & Altar. She is the author of a chapbook, Someone Else’s Body (Cannibal Books 2009). Claire graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 and is currently completing an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University.

photo: © 2009 Jason Riker, Riker Productions
One calf up adjacent the room’s black floor.
One calf parallel against the hamstring muscle.
Kick at the same time. This is called clean wide lines.
Kick back one leg this is called the floor’s circular motion.
Kick back one leg this process is called disruption.
One foot pointed this is called hello I need a mirror.
One foot extended back and held muscle is powerful muscle.
One someone watching someone else.
Two suspended this is called torpedo rip in the calf.
One clean wide line adjacent to the floor leg adjacent.
One lifts the other.
One crawls over the other.
Kick one’s foot the air elbows perpendicular to the shoulder’s long wide muscle.
One foot with twisted muscle this is not a clean wide line.
This is not wide muscle.
Two in every room the room looks up.

photo: © 2009 Jason Riker, Riker Productions
Back against the tips of someone’s fingers brushing
Someone else’s hair is chestnut colored wheels
Can be very thick paper
Is kicking feet.
Is kicking feet and lifting one partner above one partner’s head.
Is a rodeo, lifting one partner above one partner’s head.
Is a graveyard collapse hanging limp over someone else’s shoulder.
Is modern country, not new country my tractor so yellow so sexy.
Is classical dance, an ant crawl space underground.
Is pretending to be a marionette. Onstage marionettes look like movies.
Is ventriloquism like inserting your hand into someone else’s back and speaking clearly?
Is getting down in the dirtiest setting like being so I can’t believe what I did?
What did you do?
I washed my hair then braided it. After braiding I opened the drawer containing a collection of scissors.

photo: © 2009 Jason Riker, Riker Productions
One holds a sense of grasp and grasps the other.
The other leads with one hand; this process is called the body to and fro.
One lifts a leg, leans back, lifts a leg that hangs.
One hangs as a puppet hangs. This hanging is called kicking with the intention of kicking another.
Or this kicking is called rotating the body 360 degrees.
Or this kicking is a puppet show. Each puppet is animatronic.
Each puppet is animatronic and therefore has a set catalog of feelings.
Feelings each puppet feels: excitement, glee, enthusiasm, boredom, laughter.
The art of melodrama is enforced by positioning the arms as one positions one’s arms while working at a computer. At home
One may navigate the world to find pre-recorded videos.
This video is recorded live.
Or this video is being recorded in front of a live studio audience.
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One may cast the other’s torso down as live floating puppet.
One may lunge in a clean wide line so one becomes a clean wide line.
There is the sound of a foot brushing the floor. An image of the foot, now blackened.
Or there is the sound of a limb coming loose from its socket. The image of puppets slapping themselves.
The sound of a clean wide line disrupted. An image of two clean wide lines.
There is the image of one puppet collapsing, not a clean wide line but an arbitrary sequence.
There is the image of one puppet’s fed torso, completely defined by a sequence of motions.
The image of puppet twirling itself, extending its torso toward feet, one is lifting above the floor.
Or the image of puppet sweating. Puppets don’t sweat, your honor.
One puppet returns wearing a lime green and black smock.
This sequence does not take place in a kitchen.
No it does not.
Tell me why one puppet is wearing a green and black smock.
It is because the puppet positions its clean wide lines. It is because of margins.
Where are margins?
Margins in the space above below where puppet is dangling.
Or margins in space between two puppets’ hands.
Or margins in continuous sequence spinning and grabbing, grabbing and thrusting, thrusting and spinning then letting go.
Or margins take place in continuous space. One puppet swivels, extending its hand overhead.
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motion longer finally assuming one thing only writing seeing walking up and down ought never was burnt once
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World long enough ago before that something not too too.
World long enough ago before that something not too too.
World long enough ago before that something not something too too.
World long enough ago before that something no never not that.
World long enough ago before below that something no never not that.
World long enough ago before below that something no never not something not that.
World long enough ago before below that something no never too something too nothing too that.
Would long enough ago have never let nothing no nothing not something too that.
World never let the not too that.
World never let the not too that one.
World never let the not too that one before something that that one too too.
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Is my body one body.
Is my body one body not one body body.
Is my body my body, one body body, your body body.
Or is my body body your body body one body body.
My body body.
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From one body body came my body body one body body not body body times too.
Or from one body body came my body body not quite one body body but one body body times two.
Four body body yields two times body body plus no body body.
No body body plus one body body equals one body body.
One body body minus one body equals one.

The horse mounted the mirror profoundly. He was profoundly disengaged by his weight.
Nothing is forgotten by horses except a very long while. Then I think exactly my weight is a profoundly long while. I think I know what’s changed, things made up of profoundly horse-marked disengagement. I think I know what we have become. What we have become is a profoundly long while.
Do you know if there’s a performance or something. Yes it starts in five minutes. It’s a while ago. Maybe just tTo replicate the ones that are in the space already. The space is weird. C can you do us a favor when you come home.





