It’s time for the Mill
Stream eels'
return to the Sargasso
Sea.
I pen numbers off
Poughkeepsie walls
to my left thigh, keep walking
these wan landscapes
where kill names
most water.
A wedding dress awaits
burning in the utility closet.
Ottawa pulses across
this Hudson & you there
bend to dandelions, blowing
through Chinatown.
Lea Graham is the author of the poetry book, Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You (No Tell Books, 2011) and of the chapbook, Calendar Girls (above ground Press, 2006). Her poems, essays, translations and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Notre Dame Review, Delirious Hem, Southern Humanities Review and Fifth Wednesday. She is a contributing editor for Atticus Review and works as an Associate Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York where she teaches poetry and travel writing among other exciting subjects. Lea Graham was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Northwest Arkansas.
the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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