Weekly Poem: from 'Doppler Elegies'

**By Ben Lerner** By any measure, it was endless              winter. Emulsions with Then circled the lake like This is it. This April will be Inadequate sensitivity to green. I rose early, erased for an hour              Silk-brush and axe I'd like to think I'm a different person              latent image fading around the edges and ears              Overall a tighter face now. Is it so hard for you to understand From the drop-down menu In a cluster of eight poems, I selected sleep, but could not              I decided to change everything Composed entirely of stills              or fade into the trees but could not              remember the dream save for one brief shot of a woman opening her eyes Ari, pick up. I'm a different person In a perfect world, this would be              April, or an associated concept Green to the touch              several feet away * I want to finish the book in time              period. Confused bees In a perfect world a willow-effect. Rain on the recording Fine with this particular form of late everything, a spherical              break of colored stars a voice described as torn in places              Why am I always asleep in your poems              Soft static falling through The life we've chosen from a drop-down menu of available drives. Look at me Ben, when am I              This isn't my voice At such-and-such smooth rate, the lines              Stream at night and love. Why not speak of it              as all work now is late work. Leafage, fountain, cloud into whose sunlit depths I'm quoting. Is there a place for this she cut her hair              She held it towards me In your long dream              money changes hands     "Ben Lerner":http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82619's first book, "The Lichtenberg Figures" (Copper Canyon, 2004), won the Hayden Carruth Award from "Copper Canyon Press":http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/ and was named one of 2004's best books of poetry by Library Journal. His second book, "Angle of Yaw" (Copper Canyon, 2006), was a finalist for the National Book Award and Northern California Book Award. His most recent book is "Mean Free Path" (Copper Canyon, 2010). Lerner teaches writing and literature at Brooklyn College.