Monday, July 18, 2022

Dana Levin

 

Dana Levin, photo by Anne Staveley.jpg


My Sentence

—spring wind with its 
             train of spoons, 
kidney-bean shaped 
             pools, Floridian
humus, cicadas with their
             electric appliance hum, cricket 
pulse of dusk under 
             the pixilate gold of the trees, fall’s 
finish, snow’s white 
             afterlife, death’s breath 
finishing the monologue Phenomena, The Most Beautiful Girl you 
             carved the word because you craved the world

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