Fall 2008
changelings, we
burn phosphorus & sugar, ringing
globes of violet liquor for wisps
of warmth; burrowing, beets
& apples, veinsevered stems,
suckroots, sometimes a filched
shawl; we are thin thin, limbs
unstrung; names uncalled; speaking
the language of fins; fed snapdragons
& demonbirds, spitroasted
under moonbellows, looncalls; flute
& flirt; this altar stump, embering.
Susan Slaviero's poems have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Arsenic Lobster, & wicked alice, among others. Susan's chapbook, Apocrypha, is forthcoming from dancing girl press in January of 2009. She co-edits the online lit journal, blossombones.