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Shearsman 59 |
Karyna McGlynn
Deep Eddy |
How many chins
has shade unlocked and lifted
cleft heart witcheswetted by splash, dog-print
leaves a trail of archaeologytrunk lofted, jostled
on razored legs, stockingspeeled in the heat
moss sunbeam boneleaves: cash pressed
on small bird mintswave there happily
soft and flauntedmosque-cut leaves
who bicker in whisperscast off dissent and drop
little brown bathing capspointed and hard to help
how many peopleslide from one end
of the pool to the otherabove eddying time
the cottonwoods watchevery swimmer slip
through the skinsof everyone they were
and will be, chin collapsinggently into the wooden neck
both man and watchman
Copyright © Karyna McGlynn, 2004.
| Karyna McGlynn is a writer and photographer living in Seattle. Her work has recentlyappeared or is forthcoming in Wisconsin Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Plainsongs, No Exit, The Paumanok Review, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, The Blue Mouse, Nidus & Pindeldyboz. Ms. McGlynn is the editor of Screaming Emerson Press, which publishes chapbooks by local spoken-word poets. She attends the creative writing program at Seattle University where she serves as poetry editor for the Cascadia Review. |
