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/.