ANTI-HORIZON - Hoffer

ANTI-HORIZON : CAMERA CALIBRATION

a checkerboard the

chosen form

because invariant

shun stun

stun shun

a checkerboard

chosen because

various

a turning in

succession births

a ring

mountain benefits

include late style,

see deferred

peonies, see

to perspective and

lens distortion

to quake—first of the

earth, then of the

"person, animal, limb,

etc"

I don't know the just

where of any

I imagine parallel

lines, lonely

in their eternity

my mother, already

dead, cannot help

due to the small

points

aspens of the

et cetera

looking for a light to

quiet for

every baby tooth

carrying on in the

world somewhere

but die again,

quickening

of intersection

the squared remainder: elation

election

execution

Kelly Hoffer is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poetry, UNDERSHORE (2023), was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her manuscript "Fire Series" was a finalist for the 2021 National Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sixth Finch, TAGVVERK, American Chordata, Denver Quarterly, and Prelude among others. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry. Learn more at https://www.kellyrosehoffer.com/.

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