Elizabeth Savage's most recent book is Idylliad (2015) from Furniture Press Books. She teaches at Fairmont State University in Fairmont, West Virginia and serves as poetry editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature & Art. Recent articles and reviews appear in the Cambridge History of 20th-Century American Poetry, Contemporary Women's Writing, Jacket, and FIELD.
Flowers Outside It
The camera holds
the one
outside
the rest & her
apron tied
behind
This screen
& the day
on the lawn
they’ve
arranged
like flowers
printed
from lawn
Outside it
this knot
& the bow
above it
arranged
the way
she was taught
in the loops
of the yellow
about it
voluntary
temporary
pull a string
& you’re out
