LUSTROUS FUGITIVE
O my Goddess come and see
………..how I will the long now
how memory’s return device guest-hosts my one
………..………………….featherweight life on a median island
Goddess will you will the time of will I to end
………..………………….my infinite future empty of children
end my disgrace of form
………..…………………expectant of mask and muzzle
Three of your puffs and a deep sand produces bones
………..then you flee Earth into me
………..…………………Lustrous Fugitive
I am suddenly one of grotesque mingling
………..………..……….by a spell of turning into someone else
My face Slavic ruin and torn
………..………..……….between longing and safety and
those limbs of his deviling mind’s body’s bygones
………..Semblance I am
………..………..I one and no one
at the edge of the fortress of trees
………..………..………..………..….berries black and rasp
something of womanhood
………..………..………..…extracted to a wilderness
Author’s Bio
Jami Macarty is the author of The Minuses (Center for Literary Publishing, 2020), 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award – Poetry Arizona winner, and three chapbooks of poetry, including Mind of Spring (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2017), winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. She teaches writing at Simon Fraser University and is editor of The Maynard.
www.jamimacarty.com