This poem is part of CavanKerry’s series for National Poetry Month. Every day in April, we post a poem from our community of writers.
Palm trees blowing, feathers
evening’s husk, palm
trees black.
can see
nothing
against
evening’s husk
but light
of after.
palm
trees
lolling light
of after. my sister, my sister, my
sister,
my
sister,
my sis
bird black
birds, pockets of air.
breeze sloping cotton. birds sloping calm. breeze alone percussive. alone more cotton. clouds lawn the luminous noon. field shadow.
a tittering, quite pretty
outside, rushing interior. luminous green cover, percussive. it’s the rushing feels beautiful
luminous distance, green time like clouds of solitude, the well interior. the air. calm. percussive. birds that’s air.,
clouds, being of the past, tittering
Both poems were previously published in 32 Poems
Shira Dentz is the author of three full-length books, black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman), door of thin skins (CavanKerry), and how do i net thee (forthcoming) and two chapbooks, Leaf Weather (Shearsman), and Flounders (Essay Press, released this month).
Her writing has appeared widely in journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, Lana Turner, jubilat, and Western Humanities Review, and featured at The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, NPR, OmniVerse, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. My awards include an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards, Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize. Her poem-video, “Saidst,” is featured this month (April) at PoetrySeen. A graduate of the Iowa Writers‘ Workshop,she has a doctorate in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Utah. Shira was Drunken Boat‘s Reviews Editor from 2011-2016, and curates DB blog’s feature, “What I’m Reading Now…,” as well as reviews for Tarpaulin Sky. She teaches creative writing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. More about my writing can be found at shiradentz.com.
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