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    Weed-Gatherer

    wild flusters rose over rocks
    tombs
    callously forbidding
    combing

    may when nightfall
    cutting emblem
    surround              serrate

    loose—no? regurgitate.

    sway a line
                tilted and bulbous

    creek
    fall asleep

    roles are funny things
    are all bruises temporary
    like reflections on water,
    \creasing light,
    light being
    the evidence that something
    happened in
    (sig) nature



    Cold with Abundant Sun

    Take a stick, ply it with jam
    run to the curb
    and suffocate

    Remember words sung to you

    Shower me with tinsel,
    a heart like mine—
    pancake-style.

    Abandon-
    mint
                                           stark
    a tent                                star

    a boundless

                        sum.



    Braced

    This table is a gnome in a family of thimbles.
    The thing holds steady as a puzzle.
    Fingers caught in holes of a doily,
    my piece of the pie, my stronghold.



    Perishables are upon us

    Your heart’s a vase,
    green light for the many,
    loose change.

    You lean again to sit quietly.

    Breaths are halations through which we trail space.

     

    Shira Dentz is the author of five books and two chapbooks, most recently how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, 2018), the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Diálogos, 2019), and Sisyphusina (PANK, forthcoming 2020). Her writing appears widely in venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, New American Writing, Lana Turner, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and NPR. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem Award, and Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. Before returning to school to pursue graduate studies, she worked as a graphic artist in the music industry in NYC. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she holds a PhD from the University of Utah and is currently Special Features Editor at Tarpaulin Sky. She lives and teaches in upstate New York.

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