Jill Magi

 

ATLAS

skeleton at the edge of the village           presides over
valley           here is the female pelvis
again    more open than           some
skin pulled or still attached           drawn
for contrast

skeleton rests his hand on a skull placed on the laboratory table
implements of science           the dead study the dead some
more open than           and well-lit

 

 

LOT

mounted
alone      statue-look           look away and horizon

cast caste clay           claw

state of paralysis           a memorial just so
or liberty           ultimate limb limb
limb to hold a sword or trigger           flag
survey and
anthem
                              a posture

 


Copyright © Jill Magi, 2007.

Jill Magi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and her next collection Torchwood was published by Shearsman Books in January 2008. The poems in this issue are drawn from a manuscript entitled Compass & Hem