
Power Loom
Anne Marie Rooney | Poetry
Only at night, only by clot do I scratch, think,
I want to buy, to mark on map my stuffing
reach. Money is an idea to fabric into nothing
like money, a runway before the snap. I’m pink
as speed, a loosened chord comportment.
I wear that bug with a hinge to sting
scraps. Each click’s a look roosting
spikes back, like legs graded in
net, or debt, licked stamps
before the crush. Even the eggless know nest’s
a flat pulp, cult striating camp,
thorn to rose gold barter. So is juice
to the gartered gesture, god’s lesser
veins as rooms to loose and vamp
Anne Marie Rooney is the author of No Beautiful and Spitshine, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poetry has been twice featured in the Best American Poetry anthology, and has been the recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, the Amy Award, and others. She lives in Baltimore.