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Aug 7, 2012

The Honey In The Trap & The War Wife - Sundin Richards


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.

4 comments:

  1. Great entry, V.

    "That's own/ ership enough."

    "But arithmetic/ is merciless".

    Those terminal breaks are small electrical shocks, impulses hair-triggering continuing thought.

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  2. 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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