Footsteps on the ceiling
I read older yolks
are flatter
than young ones
(brazenly sunny and plump).
I am surprised tonight
by the moon’s silver crescent
and Venus’ arc.
Time for an ark to swim
out of the spoiled debris
hissing in patterns.
Please leave the fallen leaves unraked.
Anything Face
today
is
masca,
a pattern of bits
witch, specter, nightmare
buffoon
covering
anything to
guard
to hide and
to guard
making masks
makes of
a pattern
of
bits
covering used or
practiced for disguise
or concealment
a cloud before the face
cloud
the face
anything
bits,
centaurides and centaurs,
small solar system bodies
between the outer planets,
caught on a giant’s orb.
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Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK, 2020), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021, and two chapbooks. Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review,Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, New American Writing,Poets.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and Poetry Society of America. More at www.shiradentz.com
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