Systematic pulling of nettles
bees among them
the tiny yellow flowers
compact and firm,
she was eating sunflower leaves
when the day ended
each spiny hot surface
under the tongue
and the rising heat created
ground fog
a shimmering she mistook for
something too close to the heart.
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Andrea Moorhead was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1947. Editor of Osiris and translator of contemporary Francophone poetry, Moorhead publishes in French and in English. Poems and translations have appeared in journals such as Abraxas, Great River Review, The Bitter Oleander, Autre Sud, Estuaire, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Metamorphoses. Poetry collections include From a Grove of Aspen (University of Salzburg Press), Présence de la terre (Écrits des Forges), De loin and Géocide (Le Noroît). Translations include The Edges of Light (Hélène Dorion, Guernica Editions), Night Watch (Abderrahmane Djelfaoui, Red Dragonfly Press), and Dark Menagerie (Élise Turcotte, Guernica Editions, 2014).
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016 9:06 pm
Categories: Archives, Issue 9.4, Poetry
