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Winter 2008 • Vol. XXX No. 1 • Poetry |

Alpha Protein

By Page Hill Starzinger

1.

In the world of gift
   you can’t have your cake
      unless you eat it.     — Hyde)

Helix

   a curve on any
developable surface
   screw

as long as preload
   is not exceeded,
bolts will not     come loose

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Page Starzinger
Page Hill Starzinger lives in New York City. Her first full-length poetry book, Vestigial, selected by Lynn Emanuel to win the Barrow Street Book Prize, was published in Fall 2013. Her chapbook, Unshelter, selected by Mary Jo Bang as winner of the Noemi contest, was published in 2009. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Fence, West Branch, Pleiades, Volt, and many others.

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