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    Intimacy
    Intimacy
    Intimacy
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    Intimacy

    By Catherine Imbriglio

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    Winner of the 2013 Colorado Prize for Poetry

    Intimacy is a series of experimental poems that play with, resist, and acknowledge complicity with received concepts of intimacy that circulate in this media-centric age.  Undertaking an expansive understanding of the word “intimacy”, each poem contains a word or set of words that modifies the noun, uncovering the attending, associative and often contradictory obligations that arise in our relations with one another.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    ISBN9781885635341
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      Intimacy - Catherine Imbriglio

      INTIMACY

      RUSH INTIMACY

      1.

      I have no one to talk with about my behavior.

      Light falls on the wrought iron chair on the chair on the weight of the chair.

      As a matter of unpraiseworthy conduct, too much or not enough talking may be accompanied by periods of light insensitivity.

      To measure out-of-body insensitivities, a girl should use quantitative instruments, such as calendars, rulers, clocks, string.

      Many obsessive internal subjects will closely align with externally extreme behaviors, empire, stereo birds, in an aftermath of haste acceptance.

      Let me direct you by a sidereal motion, as with hand or head.

      She stands, bare breasts to the window, as if to encounter her invasive tendencies.

      Simultaneously, public and private spaces form and blend.

      Though in simply not telling, you might receive a solid rush, so you’ll do it again, as with burglar recidivism.

      I omit the porch omit the man on the porch.

      She lives in a place where talking on a cell phone while driving is the ritual equivalent of spiritual depth.

      As when viewing the body of the washed mother, you should pay attention to your visual processing.

      I move that her house is a box with a vertical column.

      I move that the house is three boxes, the house is a technical term.

      The sign says room and spirits.

      To talk to an available city hall representative, press zero.

      What is the first word the first word is rescue rescue is the first word.

      2.

      I get jolted awake by traffic sounds, squealing brakes of a truck moving too quickly down the hill.

      If a rush to start is not the same as a rush to complete, maybe you can court sleep by not saying anything.

      Though I can no longer make excuses for you, which includes no longer making excuses for myself making prior

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