Analysis of bathtub panopticon, or hybrids of indexes & of cosmologies. (poem) From: The American Poetry Review | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: Clover, Joshua | COPYRIGHT 1996 World Poetry, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The index-maker has been working late in the post-operative light of the TV, the room's indecipherable blue, the seductive clatter of measurement, where?, that is the question, where is the body wall?, the aqueous membrane that holds back the world from the eye, that place in the cranial vault that holds that the world radiates out from us in spectral waves, leaves traces, this could be a split-level house, could be everything under the sign CALIFORNIA, the index-maker wakes early to ...