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dancing girl press, 2015
$7.00
Jia Oak Baker is the author of a chapbook, Well Enough to Travel (Five Oaks Press). She is the recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and has been awarded residencies from the Wurlitzer Foundation and Hedgebrook. She lives and teaches in Phoenix, Arizona.
Twitter @jiaoakbaker Instagram @violetsky29
Morphology of Yellow
If what I exhume reveals itself in contradiction— both grotesque and gold—what then?
In visible light I dine on my self, a leg or arm, perhaps. I dream in ochre pigments. Sulfur. Saffron. Ambivalence.
What is a ghost interred but sure silence? No misty wandering. Windless.
Caves of Lascaux. Tomb of Nakht. The kiss of Judas.
I had a body in the beginning. All winter jasmine and the yolk of an egg. It was beautiful before you gazed upon it—
especially, the face.
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