meeting

    1

Strange bees—wasps?—all over
the cherry blossoms.

     *

The bots are going mad today:

De-listing. Repricing.

     *

“Get over yourself!” one whispers
to anyone who’ll listen.

    2

The magazine says consciousness
is like a staff meeting.

Rae Armantrout’s recent book Go Figure came out from Wesleyan in August of 2024. Armantrout’s poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, several editions of The Best American Poetry series, The New Yorker, Lana Turner, Granta, Poetry, and Golden Handcuffs. She is the current judge of the Yale Younger Poets Prize.