Lee Sharkey is the author of Calendars of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2013) and three other full-length collections. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Field, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, and Seattle Review. She is the coeditor of the Beloit Poetry Journal.
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2021
X
x happened can we agree x happened x happened and then fire happened and then they fell into a red salt pool in a sea of exile who was to […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
Pears
—after paintings by Samuel Bak Moths I was about to peel an apple. The apples were flushed and about to ripen. I was about to draw the blades of the […]
Poetry
Fall 2013
A Patient Word
Placed a hank of her hair in his palm folded the fingers around it With a brush for a tongue and a red ink pot painted a prayer on his belly One […]
Poetry
Fall 2013
First Song
Roll an egg away from you the egg rolls in a circle The bereaved one says turn again my daughter but you cleave to her in poverty you make your […]
Fall 2013
Temper as a Porcupine; Nothing but her Velvet Self; His Undoing
Temper as a Porcupine
A man reached for an apple the tree withdrew from his grasp A red-faced interval apple on a feral treeLee Sharkey
Lee Sharkey is the author of Calendars of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2013) and three other full-length collections. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Field, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, and Seattle Review. […]