Sophie Cabot Black

Seeking Alpha
December 12, 2013 Black Sophie Cabot

Seeking Alpha

 

Praise for the one who can take us above

The merely saved. Without risk everything

Is fixed; the added, or taken away, must be

 

Explained and to stare at the screen

Of available numbers is already to depend

On how you hunt for more. When what you know

 

Does not match what you want it is fair

To find an enemy; to get by

No longer an option. Each move makes evident

 

What is not yet done. The exponential

Sets in. The torrent is the torrent

With you or without you.  All that happens

 

Turns into the reason. And to leave behind

Who got you inside is only the beginning.

Sophie Cabot Black has three poetry collections from Graywolf Press, The Misunderstanding of Nature, (Norma Farber First Book Award) and The Descent, (2005 Connecticut Book Award) and The Exchange (2013).