IMAGE OF EARTH AND QUILL

Guest Poet Susan Allen



East 77th Street, July

my right cheek remembers your beloved chest
in evening
there so far from (here
where limbs have fallen alongside pale eucalyptus trunks
rasping 
littered with hairy bark filigree
in circular float
reeking smashed lawn,  transplendent white walls
where the ginkgo waits)
not like your mouth
there
sex-flavored, aqueous
on narrow glance a mosaic chiaroscuro in muted glow
against the brown black sage
warmly


October, 2001


Susan Allen's questions:

Does the poem set a place clearly?

Should it be more descriptive of place/smells/lighting/feelings?


Correspond with Susan Allen at
susie@shoko.calarts.edu
with your ideas about this poem.

SA's Home page http://shoko.calarts.edu/~susie






The Albany Poetry Workshop