The glare
is an orange slice
with lip-like membranes
from a past before you were born
like a cemetery you can stroll in.
Far be it from me to say
the shiver reflects like water
in a parched aloneness.
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.