Dark Matter

Dark Matter3

1

Who am Ito experience a burstof star formation?

I know this –

after the first rushof enthusiasm

any idearecedes and dims.

2

Each oneis the inverseshape of what’smissing.

3

One might trysummingthe matter up

in a singleJudas kiss,

all bitter-sweetcomplicity

and feigned ignorance

(From Versed, Wesleyan University Press 2009, page 69).

3This poem and the following may be read (though not exclusively so) knowing that Armantrout was writing under diagnose of a breast cancer, which she eventually overcame.