blue and white glass with bubbles Robyn Beattie photo

She Dressed in a Hurry (for Lady Diana)

She dressed in a hurry  or perhaps never wore a slip. The photo the press loved: a girl in a skirt, distance between her thighs backlit by the sun, a circle of children in her care birthed by other mothers. The obvious didn’t escape…

Nefertiti on the Astral

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Nefertiti on the Astral I did what I came to do. Dead, I have the luxury to know: the locus of power is not the body, though how lovely: my daughter’s daughter’s etc., daughter, sitting beside the Nile, sun falling on the brown…

Amelia

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Blood-wing blackbird, deserting again the nest of spice, to burn, in the circle of my domain: the open miles of sky, my body—and edges of a stranger’s forged wings--meeting at the cusp of dawn, valves sweetening....   Amelia,…