Three Poems

Facts

Hello from the ghostly box. 
It’s hot here. 
There are actions, objects, names. 
For example, Bronc Heiner.
Haze Hunt. Cash Sweat. Draxton Miles. 
These are all men 
who competed in a recent
Utah high school rodeo.
One of them tied goats. 
He was good.
The goats stayed bound.
That’s what you want.
To operate symbolically.
To be conscripted into the service of 
cultural norms.
To find nothing odd.
There is nothing odd.
We are tying goats.
We are named Ruck Anderson.

Facts

I’m in the porn of the world 
until completion.
Porn with its little o 
corrupted from the drawing of an eye.
Everyone said
pictures first and the plot
frozen. Then what

a flat medium this is for life
like painting in breath
I capture the sigh perfectly.
I am told

some people are less
some people are dead
or create corpses
like beetles fucking
on a raspberry bush
eat the leaf
under them skeletal.

And if the earth reboots:
Normal. Let’s dunk
on the state, which has
poisoned my ovaries.
They are full of cysts.
When I hope, they laugh.
I love laughing!
Just a little drizzle.

Facts

It’s been a long line 
in this wrong life
but I’m in it for love
and information
By now I can recite 
the poem you already know
A totally accidental fall 
from a Russian window
By now I make you stink with me
playing around in the viscera
of what I read last night 
about how individuals
individually 
lost their homes 
down a hole
Coffee has dripped in the hole
Ground beef, onions: down the hole
Apples, eras: hello hole
The hole wants what it wants!

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Rennie Ament is the author of Full-Time Mammal, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2025 Iowa Poetry Prize and forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in Spring 2026, as well as Mechanical Bull, an Editor’s Choice selection published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2023. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Bennington Review, Cleveland Review of Books, Poetry Daily, Denver Quarterly, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Owls Head, Maine.