What everyone feels for nature suppose those
feelings The last-named gentleman appears
An index of his sensitivity Accommodations of
translation long understood as elegy We feel
and pronounce this sunset a kind of microphone
Blown all over with pinholes or other holes
Skin is afterward There is no discrete I
Each bit of nature landed in one column or
the other Skin beamed down for the apparent
bending Iridescent peacock feathers Wings
of certain dragonflies
It was not intended to be in any way sensual
Prairies grass-robed and flower-decked Whose
heart-beat does not quicken Skinning and
dressing Heart swells Fresh charm framed
Delights of wilderness
Only angels can do without skin gestures of remembrance
plead the name be stabilized
between beside captured and cured
hang their harps on willows
The failure of the flamingo group their honesty of purpose
Mr. Hornaday kindly put me in possession
of distance of airiness of boughs
of evergreen outfits and hints of preparation
We are at liberty to vary attitudes put as little life as possible
in the corners let some room to spare
Dear Sister our sweetheart
authentic replica
facts flora
inner frontiers
illusion of participation
of natural variation
home studies in nature
harbor porpoise
sea grass
and oysters
To send all the skins he wanted
suggestions of stealthy theft
masculinity persistent as a text
rosy finch heart &c. &c.
I kept hold of my departing senses
doubt cast and describer suspected
so much to be remembered by hereafter
around a pond rendered in glass and wax
seasonally incongruous fur phases
Have I been wilderness
Seasonable earthly affections
Gulf wavering honeycomb
O perform our heart
O mouth our coolings
Languishing
Waxed hot in our affections
Wing O generations
Become yourself a contributor to science
It is a hopeless attempt to paint general
effects Wings thrown open like
powdered gems Daughters of time
Desire to hear the sure accompaniments
of the still orange-tree cocoa-nut fern
Naming a multitude of objects
Such elements of scenery
Sarah Mangold is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues), Electrical Theories of Femininity (Black Radish Books), and the forthcoming Giraffes of Devotion (Kore Press). She is the recipient of a 2013 NEA Poetry Fellowship and lives in Seattle.