That book you loved—the heavy one listing your human words and what they mean— it’s still where you left it all those years ago: on the crowded bottom shelf, three books from the left, in the parlor by your rented summer room. Since then it’s not been opened…it’s not been touched, except by the housekeeper, … Continue reading The God of Importance
by Philip Memmer
FRAGMENT #40 In the dream you asked me for love, but I, to you, of a white goat sang instead How she climbed the rocks and couldn’t get down, how her bleating called the wolf out, gave him a hunger, her scent sliding lightly toward him on the air Tell me this doesn’t scare you, … Continue reading Sappho Collaborations:
But I To You
by Eileen Moeller
For awry For aslope For askew For shaped into a crook For throwing an awkward elbow For the handles of jugs and impertinent teapots For sharp-pointed For bow-bent For the etymology of battle (in common use) From Old Norse to Middle English as applied to spear, spike, dagger, goad, hook, anchor, axe, knife, sword— Let … Continue reading Incantation for Akimbo
by Jen Karetnick
