Postdrome
2021; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 129; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/sew.2021.0037
ISSN1934-421X
Autores ResumoPostdrome Michael Shewmaker (bio) After the tinderbehind my eyes — the unsealed Ark,our jealous God’spitiless light, after the pleasof please, the temple’s torn veil, a bodylowered froma soiled cross — I wake to youdrawing my face: Don’t move, you say.You’ll ruin the mood.The late light scrolls across your dresser,over a flacon of new perfume.An orchid opensin your mirror. [End Page 468] How long? I ask,but you don’t answer. When the light hits,finally, the mirror,the orchid’s shadow branches overyour chest, your neck. This, too, a kindof covenant —of light, of shadow, of love and whatwill always follow. We die inward —you told me once,before we married — even if ina lover’s arms. [End Page 469] Michael Shewmaker Michael Shewmaker is the author of Penumbra (2017), winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Born in Texarkana, Texas, he is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner fellow. His recent poems appear in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Emily. Copyright © 2021 The University of the South
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