Exposition/Expose/Exposure
Martha Collins
| poetry
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.