The Honey In The Trap
Your name
burns
Hamadryad
from the
Mail box
only yours
Crows I
spell there
The left
it’s torn
From
the left
Opoponax
and the
Island
yet the
Shore un
regenerate
Is a limit
no longer
Wit
ness
The
world
That’s own
ership enough
The War Wife
Assigning
value is
Arbitrary ex
cept to you
A blue hem
and sun
In your hair
if not on
Skin then
sun everywhere
Kore un
ending
As
usual
The creature
only works if
You keep
at it
But arithmetic
is merciless
Sundin Richards is the author of The Hurricane Lamp (Otis Nebula, 2010). His work has appeared in many journals, such as Colorado Review, Volt, Zone, Sugar House Review, Interim and Western Humanities Review, (where he win the Utah Writer's Competition for poetry) among others. He has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Salt Lake City.
Sundin Richards is the author of The Hurricane Lamp (Otis Nebula, 2010). His work has appeared in many journals, such as Colorado Review, Volt, Zone, Sugar House Review, Interim and Western Humanities Review, (where he win the Utah Writer's Competition for poetry) among others. He has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Salt Lake City.
Fantastic!
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ReplyDelete"That's own/ ership enough."
"But arithmetic/ is merciless".
Those terminal breaks are small electrical shocks, impulses hair-triggering continuing thought.
It's the relationship between the two poems that has me fascinated, and that delicate tether: Shore un/regenerate and Kore un/ending
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