Several sections of this photograph are not visible.
Several sections have been repaired.
Several pieces of this canvas have been torn out
or covered over.
Several sections have been smeared.
If you turn around the photograph the result
is not the backs of heads.
The result of one painting sawn in three
is three paintings.
Several sections of this paragraph have been repaired.
Several sections have been forged with outside influence.
The woman holding the man’s cock in the painting was also painted
by the man.
If the eye sees & the mouth describes.
If several sections of this photograph are not visible.
If the corn in the field winnowed new
teeth smiling
Several sanctions of this painting have been recently
restored
There is no speaking torn out & lifted says the president
There is no section of this painting you do not see
Several sections of this photograph have been torn out.
Several sections have been replaced.
Several parts of this poem are encoded to prevent theft
of language.
Several parts of this poem are encoded by theft,
to prevent language.
The mercenaries hold silver guns, they are throwing
the artist’s body into the trunk of an American car.
Several pictures have not been taken.
Several times I have not stopped listing over.
The photograph gets smaller in the fingers.
When it is over we stand up & walk out, our breath fast,
uncreasing our knees
From Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) by Erín Moure. Copyright © 2017 by Erín Moure. Used with the permission of the author.