Tuesday poem #157 : Emily Izsak : Oct. 22nd 83 to London 16:35

Daughters of impulse

in rarely shameful infancy

Your precipitous vertebrae

heighten the ballgame

Agony of lateral movement

versus the dialectic in and out

come and go

thumb and clitoris

In gentler times in a better

train car

the music may develop

direction

Emily Izsak's work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, House Organ, Cough, The Steel Chisel, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, HOOD, and The Hart House Review. In 2014 she was selected as PEN Canada's New Voices Award nominee. Her chapbook, Stickup, is available for $10 on woodennickles.org, or for free if you track her down in person and ask really nicely.

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