Self Portrait as Fragments of Ancient Greek Statuary
I. Self Portrait as Head of Aphrodite
The Acropolis Museum’s galleries burst with bodies missing arms and legs...
When One Door Closes
CLOSED DOORS
My husband spent forty years crawling through the bellies of ships and lugging chainsaws up ladders and stacking boulders...
Small Sacrament
I recite the psalm of collective holdings,
spell your name in hunger pains
& lines of wax-spill down my back.
Three star-shaped bruises on my sternum
appear...
