Alan Britt – Giraffe-Spotted Junonia Shell
Giraffe-Spotted Junonia Shell Bottle caps like empty shotgun shells—guardian angel descends with marble Venus thighs— freight train drops cargo in Des Moines & Missoula— Flytrap eyelashes to challenge Mardi Gras snags me in the subway—says, Why you running . . . slide your Metro Card through my slot . . . right here . . […]
Camille Carter – Havre
Havre Mixed-blood’s dark recitatives carve out arterial walls I refuse to be removed Once sounded out at sundown words will fly away from you a tongue is like a ghost I refuse to be removed There where someone else’s daughter stands cradling the credo beneath her swollen breast I refuse to be removed O echo […]
Connie Post – Fallen
Fallen I punched an angel in the face last night I punched her so hard she had to lie on the floor with me I made her count the floorboards and listen to how they used to squeak before my father came in the room I whispered “now you know what it’s like for light […]
Peggy Dobreer – Starlight in Exile
Starlight in Exile the mother bone great pelvic girdle hammock hung from the head of the heart bone fulcrum sway rocker on its helical haunches and in the dark heart of the matter a second beat rises to its crescendo a beat beat and a breath a pump pump and a slow dissolve in to […]
