Lesson VIII: Map of North America
—redacted from Smith’s Quarto, or Second Book in Geography, 1848, p. 17
division
division
general divisions
opposite
cluster clusters What considerable number
Where is
Where is Cape Farewell?
What sound leads into the largest
What What What What
Boundaries Bound United Bound
the New ? Bound possessions?
What What What What
prevails
What What What What
races What race ?
Copyright © 2017 Elizabeth Bradfield. Used with permission of the author. This poem originally appeared in Tin House, Winter 2017.
Elizabeth Bradfield
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Once Removed (Persea Books, 2015), Approaching Ice (Persea Books, 2010), and Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books, 2008).