Waving
Gone, like a cuff link.
Creaselines on my father's forehead,
Duane Reade's fluorescent lights.
In my sleep, a crocus blossom cracks through.
Creaselines on my father's forehead.
A sunflower yolk falls down sleep's chute;
springtime in the unconscious.
A blazing, yellow circle.
A sunflower yolk falls down sleep's chute.
Seeds flung back over my shoulder.
A blazing, yellow circle.
Gone, like a cuff link.
Bio Note
Shira Dentz is a poet and fiction writer living in Brooklyn, New York.
Her poetry has appeared and is forthcoming in numerous journals and
anthologies including: 13th Moon, Salt Hill Journal, Phoebe, Cimarron Review, The
Evergreen Chronicles, Barrow Street, and Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper.
She was a semi-finalist in the Nelson Algren competition and a finalist for the Heekin Foundation's fiction
fellowship. In 1998 and 1999 she was a semi-finalist in the The
Nation/"Discovery" contest.
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