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Edward Smallfield and Miriam Pirone
insomnia
Under the bed:
the gender of the spirit
hairy hands hands without hair
if the ____ is covered
a drop of
on the blanket
diving
as synonym
above her the dead
begin again
with many questions
somebody she knows
a grandfather
in overalls
no a business suit
a necktie
the color of
her hair grows after
her nails
uninvited to breakfast
fried eggs in a dream
and the dish ran away:
fork and
knife and
her body slides
South on the plate
& West
somebody has cooked her
too much
or too little
sickle moon
edge of
After the suppression of the language
certain parts of speech have disappeared:
the spires miele
the lunar midollo
a
diagonal
toward or away
from
the
sea
the statue of
balconies have
melted rosewater:
eyelashes
windows
rain fell on her
collar
the trains run all
night
waiting for you a street corner a cab
a girl
with
in her hair
in his
white
mask
a surgeon
slices
underneath
the city veins in his right arm
another
city
iron or bread
broken
eggs
oil
wine
blocks of language
jammed sideways
ciotollo
Edward Smallfield's poems have appeared in alice blue, Bird
Dog, dusie, Five Fingers Review, 26, and a number of
other venues. He's also the author of two poetry collections,
The Pleasures of C and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (a
collaboration with Doug MacPherson).
Miriam Pirone is the poetry editor of Big Ugly Review
and her worked has appeared in alice
blue.
Their collaborative chapbook, locate, is forthcoming from dancing girl press in 2008. |