in a Mélange
Shira Dentz
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Photo by Marina Matusevich on Unsplash
Tissue crosses a haze
marked X for bird brain
chirping excitedly
or clashing silver
The streets of mayhem fall lightly
on its crown: ding, ding
fluttering
One could call this a heart
stretched & pulled on a lark’s table |unetherized near an umber twig stretched bare of green
There are limits to how much
we can inhale at once,
and where does that lead us?
As we circle back, always, these days
to virus,
public & private,
permanence is always evolving
says the Myth of eternal return
in the chill of a luminescent neck
shuddering on a new block
of haze
Another visitation from the God/dess of
Transition, twin of Limbo
for whom I must lay
my cloth.
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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.
