No Fault State
2015; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/thr.2015.0031
ISSN1939-9774
Autores ResumoNo Fault State Amy Glynn (bio) Which means equal fault; my bad, yours too,everyone’s bad. Everyone’s bad. Everyone.Here in the Great State of No Fault we runan equal opportunity racket. You own your stuff. I own mine. And what this meansis that it doesn’t matter that we’re knockedoff balance by larger forces, get our clockscleaned when some orogenous zone caves in. Your dreams are no one else’s problem, that’s a coldfact. Get used to it. You mightbe holding hands in a meadow—whatever—and rightthen something cracks between you. We are told an open field’s the safest place to be,but all the same, you’re on opposing sidesof a rift too wide to jump. The planet bidesits time; there’s no predicting it. But, see, the fault’s torn seam is not your fault. And platessmashing against each other—hey, we knowsubduction happens. Not your issue, though.Upheaval likewise: nature really hates accrued stress. The thing is, seismologyis, let’s say, inexact. Crude. In the stateof being faultless, we adjudicatethat matter doesn’t matter, we decree [End Page 167] that the past be made irrelevant becauseit cannot be undone. We say mistakeswere made. Not my fault or I’m sorry. Lawsare written in these stones, and when one breaks and falls on you, well, that’s just tough.We cannot underline that part enough. [End Page 168] Amy Glynn AMY GLYNN’s work appears widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry. Her collection, A Modern Herbal, was released by Measure Press in 2013. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Copyright © 2015 Amy Glynn
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