Shira Dentz
Winter 2022 Edition / Poetry
Aubade Again
Shira Dentz
Aubade Again
Streets shine
like seal skin.
I long for a
handful of
miscellaneous
textures & shapes,
though they’d be
extraneous
to the elephant
in the room.
This is a
work poem
yearning
to be lyric.
We take small
steps on pebbles
laid out to cross the
lake mirroring a
boundaryless
vat of grief.
Needles plague
the dock, pink
linen spills,
a waterfall of
blush, an ode
ahead of time.
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK, 2020), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021, and two chapbooks. Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Brooklyn Rail, Plume, Lana Turner, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Idaho Review, New American Writing, Poets.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and Poetry Society of America. More at www.shiradentz.com