Exposition/Expose/Exposure

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Martha Collins

 

setting forth     an ex-

a present     position     point

act     of exposing     state

of being     exposed

 

displayed     disclosed

wares     details     laid open

disposed     of former     opposed

for want     of shelter     warmth

 

a surface     laid open

to view     revealing     a northern

to light     public     indecent     fact

of being     without

 

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904

Martha Collins’s eighth book of poems, Admit One: An American Scrapbook, will be published in the Pitt Poetry Series in spring 2016. Collins has also published four volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, and is editor-at-large for Field magazine.