Dissolve
Shira Dentz
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Photo by Alonso Reyes on Unsplash
Ferns & angels bathed in
skin-color breath
munch a bunch of mothballs,
disintegrating into a pile of steam
& orphaned moons.
Signals lost
in someone’s future tense.
Antlered with machismo
& cinematic eyes,
a purse-shaped animal descends,
yellow feet like highlighters
grazing the misty waste.
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is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021, and two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Pleiades, Lana Turner, Brooklyn Rail, Plume, Apartment, Nat Brut, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Idaho Review, New American Writing, Poets.org, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, Painted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize, and Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award.