Aimee lowenstern

REPETITION

of course it has all been written before.
the moon has taken every form
a moon can take, the poets dressing it
in each adjective and verb,
not to mention the stars,
which are old news by now.

look, how the sun rises
in a sweetly derivative way,
the birds repeating their syllables—
yes, even the mockingbirds and crows,
with their plagiarism.

and we eat, despite having eaten
on previous mornings, 
despite our ancestors having eaten
long before we grew
into our mother’s hunger,
and perhaps it is a homage
or motif: the bread, the butter,

the recipe like a quatrain,
with only four ingredients.

AIMEE LOWENSTERN IS A TWENTY-THREE YEAR OLD POET LIVING IN NEVADA. SHE HAS CEREBRAL PALSY AND IS FOND OF GLITTER. HER WORK CAN BE FOUND IN SEVERAL LITERARY JOURNALS, INCLUDING LUNCH TICKET AND THE HOXIE GORGE REVIEW.