I
Near Lion,
Bliss mimes.
Shy. Fish hat, two bandaids.
pith : flee
cat light
fat cloak
Dear Orion,
This rhymes.
I. Wish that, you had stayed.
with : me
that night
that broke
2
Hear Why an
oar slides
off the boat.
See thin
blue chance
hum there a fourth
in rows.
Dear Orion
More rhymes.
Cough. A throat.
Begin
to dance
somewhere the north
wind blows.
3
Clear My One
clogged throat.
Reverse rhyme.
Switch surface,
depth. Carry across
the two
of me, from
you, or
you.
Dear Orion
Bog, moat.
Peverse sign.
Hitch surfeit,
step. Wary of dross
a new
love she, some
clue. For,
to.
I
Steer Me
Bliss chimes.
Why, dish-flat
too bad, frayed.
Flint sea.
Sad height
at float
Dear She
This rhymes.
I, wish-that
you had, stayed.
With me.
That night
that broke
Lisa Fishman, “Surface Translations” from Dear, Read. Copyright © 2002 by Lisa Fishman. Reprinted by permission of Ahsahta Press.
Source:
Dear, Read (Ahsahta Press, 2002)
Lisa Fishman grew up in Pontiac, Michigan. She earned a BA at Michigan State University, where she studied with Diane Wakoski; an MFA at Western Michigan University, where she studied with William Olsen; and a PhD in literature at the University of Utah, with a dissertation on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetics.
Influenced by the British Romantic poets and the pastoral tradition, Fishman composes haunting poems that explore the . . .
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