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dancing girl press, 2014
$7.00 This fall, Rachel Feder will join the English faculty at the University of Denver. She blogs about contemporary poetry at oona-verse.com. On Beauty We use a thing’s beauty to remember it by. So the triplet sprigs, the one-edged knife, make the ivy poison. Making prints, a hand guides my hand over the monotype. Image of bleeding cherries goes to press, the anvil left unnoticed. Before a colonoscopy, you pop a pill and let it all pour out. On her break, she sits in the lawn with you behind the art barn, fingering the chamomile and clover. You know her indecision— it’s a tendon running down your ankle, a lemonade stand you’ve always driven by. What do we become? I am not sure we change. We stretch out inches and paint our lashes, our beauties colorful pins we use to hold up the map of ourselves, to help us to remember where we’ve been. |