Bulleted woman
With a messed up face
Saw her unmarred self
Bloom in sleep
Somewhere along the brow
*
Didn’t get Gemini
I lose my physical certainty in sex
His extravagant threads
Fleeting emblems of fragile power
*
Two of seven girls
Abortions by candlelight
Their bras pinned to basement pipes
Effigies to each baby
*
She means it won’t burn
If it is alive
If it happened to someone else
If it happened I won’t say who
*
Could be an elephant’s universe
I want to know how animals mourn
The idyllic safari gone murder
Chopped trunks wrapped in Burberry
*
Oh Gemini Oh
Our la la la’s happen in silence
We hold up our fists
Shake them as we witness
*
Fluent in supermarket parking lot language
Arrows to sorrow—
Give me an instance where instances
Prove the future in icicles
*
A turn is a torque
A touch is a torch
Assured there’s award
8 ball shaking in a pine locket
*
Gemini goes dark in the dark
Matches iris of a dead elephant
Maybe all love is just so utilitarian
Grass stained knee sex in the corner pocket
Christie Ann Reynolds is the author of Texts from My Mom (Big Lucks Books 2014) Revenge for Revenge (Coconut 2012), and idiot heart (New School Chapbook Contest 2009). In 2012 she was awarded a Poets & Writers Amy Award for emerging NYC female writers under 30. As a student at Hofstra University in 2003, Stephen Dunn chose her as the winner of the Academy of American Poets undergraduate award. Christie Ann is the former curator of the long reigning Stain of Poetry Reading Series in Brooklyn and a multimedia series called Totem. She currently teaches writing and science at a Montessori school in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn.
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