
Cole Swensen's On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017), third selection
Herewith a third and final round of passages! ...a green hillside in Gunhill as evening fell just as it was falling somewhere else as it was collecting in a doorway in which a woman leaned, smoking a cigarette, trying to remember a name. * And from there the déjà vu, described as though he'd never heard of the thing, and so for him, of course, it had no name, and so for him, it couldn't end, and so the most mundane things, the rake, for instance, or apples held out on a tray,