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July 2, 2012 Verse Daily
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Denial Machine

BY Sandra Meek

Out my rented window, traffic worries
its one black stitch; a train hums
third-story floorboards into dream, moon abandoning sea
to newborn stillness. Trench and tide pool
entire. Within-your-reach, even the shyest shells
flicker-tease. Indigo
to pearl, ivory spirals, bows
of abalone rain: beauty hinged on tender bodies

ripped away clean. Surface was always
meant for passing. We raid the deep
to believe in stay, what I clasp
in your gifted ring, fisting my branded hand
better to glitter
the darkness forward.

 

Biography

SANDRA MEEK is the author of four books of poems, Biogeography, winner of the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press, 2008), Burn (2005), Nomadic Foundations (2002), and Road Scatter, forthcoming from Persea Books in 2012. She is also the editor of an anthology, Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark Press, 2007), which was awarded a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal. A recipient of a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, she teaches at Berry College. Her website is www.sandrameek.com

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