Emily Vizzo
The Brain Behind the Brain
Revision is best math, best trespass, what safety stupidly undid.
God yourself. Be your game.
A bird is not is not.
You can only know so many people. Manners hold no light at all.
Though a process might begin
within the heart, it could also begin in the brain or the bone.
There is a why to this, but how sad can you really be?
Be the place where there is no power.
I brained my way
into myself, but I was also born there.
What math is this?
I do not remember being young.
The gun the brother of my father
loved was but a borrowed tool & Montana the ground
that wraps him.
I used to fear imperfection but now I am
closer to it.
Clean is not the same as happy.
I know things are things.
Emily Vizzo's poems appeared or will appear in FIELD, RHINO, Muzzle, North American Review, The Normal School, Blackbird, jubilat and Prairie Schooner. She completed her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently teaches digital journalism and creative writing at the University of California, San Diego Extension. Last year she was selected for Best New Poets 2015, and was a James Merrill fellow at Vermont Studio Center last summer.
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Revision is best math, best trespass, what safety stupidly undid.
God yourself. Be your game.
A bird is not is not.
You can only know so many people. Manners hold no light at all.
Though a process might begin
within the heart, it could also begin in the brain or the bone.
There is a why to this, but how sad can you really be?
Be the place where there is no power.
I brained my way
into myself, but I was also born there.
What math is this?
I do not remember being young.
The gun the brother of my father
loved was but a borrowed tool & Montana the ground
that wraps him.
I used to fear imperfection but now I am
closer to it.
Clean is not the same as happy.
I know things are things.
Emily Vizzo's poems appeared or will appear in FIELD, RHINO, Muzzle, North American Review, The Normal School, Blackbird, jubilat and Prairie Schooner. She completed her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently teaches digital journalism and creative writing at the University of California, San Diego Extension. Last year she was selected for Best New Poets 2015, and was a James Merrill fellow at Vermont Studio Center last summer.
Return to May 2016 Edition