SERENA SOLIN
Three Poems
A correction note to a mysterious entity:
A correction note to a mysterious entity:
With what’s left of our unremarkable lives
we walk in what’s left of the world’s coastal prairie.
Heather Christle, Ru Freeman, MĂłnica Gomery, Christian Gullette, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, K. Iver, Robert Wood Lynn, Rooja Mohassessy, Susan Nguyen, Laura Read, J. C. Talamantez, Rodrigo Toscano, & more
First and last, we grapple a galaxy
Let us push out this ship’s dark
perfection of yew.
“Like much-named Penelope, we in the dark hours [like as not] ravel our hatch-worked images. Cunning as Penelope, we must resist, persist, outwit the bully / suitors of our worldâs strictures, its demands.”
Nightjars once called us later & later.
Because we missed the Raphaels the first time
A man told me I should split
my poem in two
When the streetlamp roundly pushing up the darkness was 10 won