Definition Drift / Joshua Alan Sturgill
She started out an obscure commune in Themyscira,
membership standards famously severe.
Then (for reasons rather obscure) lent her name
to an equatorial rainforest and its principal river.
She’s a river again, so to speak: a flow
of goods and services — a kind of infinite wetnurse
who confines her children in childhood
with the sedentary ghosts of possibility.
Just last week, she sent me supplements sourced
from endangered herbs — they arrived miraculously
free of shipping charges (perhaps I qualified
for her much-lightened membership plan?) and
helpfully, she suggested A History of Archery,
wallpaper, and a monthly supply of infant formula
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