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The American Poetry Review (Digital)

The American Poetry Review (Digital)

1 Issue, September/October 2019

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FIVE POEMS

FIVE POEMS
Explain This Corpse Why is it drowning? Why unpinnedfloaty locks, inset with fallenleaf&filth as if any buoyant trash were jewel? Why painted pale—not pale and bloated? Why more adoredminnow-lipped than when she breathed air, spoke? Why love wesuch dank ophelia? Why rather thisonly dead only girl? I won’t. Any- more I prefer nunnery. For me, mine.My crush of crones know several rivers—one is age. We row it sure, dip&pull. We throat coarse boatsong thru lipsunstriving since birth towards blue.And so this knot of women made of stuff that twists&writhes&maybethwarts but does not drift: us sisterslearned to swim. Deepened eel-alls we —our slimy lengths of ladyparts slickwith the knowing-how and the notdying.I think it’s prettier, this life— fermenting dough ’neath crusty scale, ifyou’d just watch it move—in purposiverise&fall&rise not fluid rot. Want to see? Quit the mown flowers. Cometo the…
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