Sandra Marchetti
Summer 2024 | Poetry
Apollo
On a black
foreground past
hung curtains
you hover over
me—fingers
hooked into
the bed, shoulders
curled, stomach
slack. Your
sex moves
like a star.
I can’t see
me, but feel
our foreheads
pulled tight
to meet at
the brow line.
This is a divine
impossibility—
though you’re
always shaping
into anyone,
no one
in particular.
Sandra Marchetti is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Aisle 228, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2023), and Confluence from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Sandra’s poetry appears widely in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Her essays can be found at The Rumpus, Whiskey Island, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, Pleiades, and other venues. Sandy is Poetry Editor Emerita at River Styx Magazine. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at Harper College in Chicagoland.