Ben Lerner is the author of three poetry collections, The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path, and of three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School. Lerner teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College.

From “Doppler Elegies”

by Ben Lerner

I want to finish the book in time

         period. Confused bees
In a perfect world
a willow-effect. Rain on the recording
Fine with this particular form
of late everything, a spherical

         break of colored stars

a voice described as torn in places
People on couch
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