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Shira Dentz

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spattered measure
spattered measure
July 24, 2020 Dentz Shira

spattered measure
 
what beauty O sad world through answers
 
the screech of
white,
O
says the light.
 
O
says
the moon behind
all
of beauty:
What
of
it,
 
around
a
stately
ugliness
the
screech
of beauty:
O
says
the dumb hanging
world, lost
in its bitterness,
 
silv’ry
birds answering to measure the moon.

Shira Dentz is the author of five books including Sisyphusina (PANK, 2020), the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Diålogos), and how do I net thee (Salmon Poetry). a National Poetry Series finalist, as well as two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her poetry, visual, and cross-genre writing appear in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, New American Writing, Iowa Review, Idaho Review, Brooklyn Rail, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series (Poets.org), and NPR. A recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem Award, and Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, she is Special Features Editor at Tarpaulin Sky and teaches in upstate NY. More about her writing can be found at http://www.shiradentz.com

Plume: Issue #108 August 2020