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

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