“Stakes” by J. Kates

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Metes and Bounds1

This is my territory —
I mate only on the edge of it,
I prowl the perimeter
up to the river and down to one certain tree.

2

Where is the center?
I have never been in so far
but it is no less mine.

3

Surveyors never work alone:
somebody holds the line.

–J. Kates,
Metes and Bounds
Accents Publishing

More from Metes and Bounds and J. Kates:

J. KatesJ. Kates is a poet, literary translator and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry in 1984 and a Translation Project Fellowship in 2006, as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts in 1995. He is the translation editor of Contemporary Russian Poetry, and the editor of In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era. A former president of the American Literary Translators Association, he is also the co-translator of three books of Latin American poetry, and has a chapbook of his own poems, Mappemonde (Oyster River).

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