by Diann Blakely
New Poets of America
Series
"Midas
knew power first and grief thereafter. Shoaf knows everything
she knows all at once, word by word, line by line, poem by poem.
These sly poems are spare and ample, both. They're cool and
passionate, frank and opaque, artful and true. They're not about
what it means to be right--though they acknowledge and even
embrace this fatal ambition--but about what it means to be us.
- William Matthews
After Balthus
Her
breast is a flower,
it
would fill her small hand.
The
pink nipple shrinks
at
her touch. Someone
is
close by, his back
to
her mirror. The cracked
kindling
sings. And the curtain
swells
gently, the clock will move
slowly,
on course.
©
BOA Editions, Ltd 1992
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 0-918526-85-x
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 1992
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