Pond Glimmer
Stars are coiled eels
about a harvest moon
stuttering darkness
bloom is as bloom does
refrains come and go glow
Milky cubes of light
throng the mast of us mass
for days without accents
and beds in which
no one dreams
of nightingales or round-abouts of hell
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books; winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize), and two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Pleiades, New American Writing, Lana Turner, VOLT, Brooklyn Rail, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Poetrysociety.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards.