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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Garin Cycholl Garin Cycholl teaches writing and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also works as co-editor of Near South, a journal of experimental poetry, fiction, and drama. His recent work will appear this spring with Admit2 and Keep Going. He is author of Nightbirds (selected prose recently published by moria books), and Blue Mound to 161, a book-length poem on geological and historical displacements in Southern Illinois (Pavement Saw Press 2005).

Levitations Garin Cycholl after Aaron Siskind

to read these put your head in a tuck—your shoulders in a box the masks tangible as air   muscles plied into frame   then grayed   the sky gives way staring into your own shoulder (not as solid as it seemed tell your knees you love the sky   the sadness realizing Hi is dead   the letters have stopped coming   but you now a story of falling bodies splashing into the air below your hip gives way to it explodes and what's on the water? paper greased and alumi- nummed down and greened   your fingers splitting it—a hands down myth here counting ribs through surface flying into a silvered gelatin skin   your consciousness is a helicopter whirl thrown against a brickpile you rise to the applause of towheaded kids on the pier and tell yourself that's America

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