Ekphrastic



there are some things up there
uptown
 
I want to see
 
I want to see    I'm going to look at that and see
 
I want to go up and see
 
that show. That show
 
I went to see, I went to see.
 
There are some things up
 
there   uptown
 
I want to
 
look at that and see. I'm going to see
 
what I look. What I look at, when I look, vessel,
 
I stood to see. I went to stand to look
 
to see. Venturing further I went outside myself to look
at that wall. It fed! There was a box inside that was not blank, I saw it.
It was really different from an aura, the thing had
 
colors, the thing was talking
 
to itself. And spoke
 
to me, not incidentally.

About this poem

Rebecca Wolff, "Ekphrastic" from One Morning—. Copyright © 2015 by Rebecca Wolff. Reprinted by permission of the author and Wave Books.

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Written on 2015

Submitted by Drone232 on July 09, 2022

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XA B B B X B X A X B X C CXX X X B
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 645
Words 150
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1

Rebecca Wolff

Born and raised in New York City, Rebecca Wolff earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry collections include One Morning— (2015); The King (2009); Figment (2004), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Manderley (2001), selected for the 2001 National Poetry Series. In the Harvard Review, Ellen Davis writes, “Wolff’s darkly funny, urbane poems offer observations on gender, work, motherhood, social life, sex, writing, and literature. … These poems give us memorable, highly original figments.” more…

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