Poetry
Spring 2003
Erotic Roman Antiquities
Naples for Mihaela Even in the museum we held hands— like those schoolchildren sporting yellow tees & blue bandannas, each clasping a partner, noisy little clones steered away from […]
Poetry
Spring 2003
Wedding Dress
That Halloween I wore your wedding dress, our children spooked & wouldn’t speak for days. I’d razored taut calves smooth, teased each blown tress, then—lipsticked, mascara’d, & self-amazed—shimmied like a […]
Poetry
Spring 2003
Miserere
We’re bathing together when Alina kneels in steam to reveal crimped flaps of skin, drawn shades the surgeons have fashioned: system of pulleys worked by little metal wheels screwed into […]