A (Research) Poem

Vicki (Australia)

[Research poem]

The Stapler

Your streamlined form,
cold and reassuring in my hand
I expect you to be broken
You are.
Always when I need you
companion to my panic,
always there at the end
when the things are put together
witness
destroyer
I pick you apart and start again
thumb bleed

My chosen six words:

Cold
Broken
Panic
Witness
Destroyer
Bleed

Research Poem

I want to be a different witness
than the cold observer of this field
I panic I will misrepresent the Kurds
not broken stateless people; but revolutionary subjects
destroyer of state terror and oppressive law
days bleed into one before I begin