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Terri Witek


But Don't Call

Salesmen, hangmen:
we would change into something worse
if, during a moony hour, we nursed
affection toward its natural end.

Of course we'll stay friends
(I mutter this anxious curse).
Deliveryman, poison pen,
I've changed you into something worse.

But as specimens
hooked on gravity, which coerces
even starfish to stay the course,
we'll surely cling (if we meet again),
like oxygen, like countrymen.



The Distance Between Us Tmesis

Child (nesting) ren
Book (sticky) plate
Dog (two yards) gone
Third (husband) rate

Fact (don't bear) checking
Fore (but won't) play
Foot (no less) binding
Nor (find your) way

To (kiss kiss) morrow
Night (broody) mare
Eye (drawn to) shadow
No (goodbye) where

































AUTHOR BIO

Terri Witek is the author of The Shipwreck Dress, Carnal World, Fools and Crows, Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES: Revising the Self. A native of northern Ohio, she teaches English at Stetson University, where she holds the Art and Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing. Earlier work in Mezzo Cammin: 2006.2

POETRY CONTRIBUTORS

Sarah Busse
Barbara Crooker
Jehanne Dubrow
Annie Finch
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Dolores Hayden
Melanie Houle
Michele Leavitt
Diane Lockward
Charlotte Mandel
Ann Michael
Tatyana Mishel
Jennifer Reeser
Wendy Sloan
Diane Arnson Svarlien
Marilyn Taylor
Kathrine Varnes
Terri Witek
Marly Youmans

FEATURED ARTIST
Marion Belanger: My current project, Continental Drift: Iceland/California, is structured around the geologic boundary that forms the edge of the North Atlantic Continental Plate. I was particularly interested in the fact that this geological boundary has no political allegiance, was not determined by wars, by financial interest, or national demarcation. It is a boundary that cannot be controlled or contained by human intervention.
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