Lee Ann Brown

The Sleep That Changed Everything


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       The Sleep That Changed Everything

      WESLEYAN POETRY

      LEE ANN BROWN

      The Sleep That Changed Everything

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

      Published by Wesleyan University Press,

      Middletown, CT 05459

      ©2003 by Lee Ann Brown

      All rights reserved

      Designed by Dean Bornstein

      Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Brown, Lee Ann.

      The sleep that changed everything / Lee Ann Brown.

      p. cm.—(Wesleyan poetry)

      ISBN 0–8195–6621–7 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0–8195–6622–5

      (pbk.: alk. paper)

      I. Title. II. Series.

      PS3552.R6932S57 2003

      811'.6—dc21

      2002155482

      Cover illustration: “Southern Belle,” by Sally Egbert.

      To

      You

      the Other

      to

      Poets

      to

      Come

      and to

      Stephanie Jane Harrison (1964–1986)

      Harry Smith (1923–1991)

      Marjorie Keller (1951–1994)

      Joe Brainard (1942–1994)

      Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)

      Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)

      Agnes Lee Dunlop Wiley

      my maternal grandmother

      (New Year’s Eve, 1902–Valentine’s Day, 1999)

      CONTENTS

AcknowledgmentsIX
INSUFFLATION
Auspicious Window3
A Call for Vertical Integration in the Eye of the Storm4
Cometary5
Encyclopedia Botanica6
Insufflation7
Poet’s Complaint13
Respond to me15
shiny jewel eye16
Whitman Poem “Come…”18
ESTIVATION
Convolute21
Involute22
Obvolute25
Quincunx26
Revolute27
feathery stitches +++28
Rose Clothed Ahead29
VIBRATORY ODES
Alone33
Alpha Beta Catalogue34
Ballad of Amiri B. (60’s)35
Ballad of New Orleans37
Ballad of Vertical Integration38
Car Games39
Catullus Couch40
Dear Rod Moth42
Esmerelda Suite
Coronary Decades to Crown Heights43
The Current Scene Continued Which I Love to See45
Desire Device47
Esmerelda Suite49
Poison of Gold’s Fly-By-Night Signatures53
Hannah’s Method55
How Glad56
Joe Acrostics57