. . . shift at oars
water
relives
reservoir
boat
bottom
draft
displaced
°
lineal
thought
backward
body
no one
knows
the brains
I am now
tree
an oar
origin
joints ruptured
soak in
deep ink
°
wallpaper
remnant
flower
float
chandelier
brief case
hundred words
logged
erode
my
Arabic
congestion
of resin
person
forecasts
final position
restless sleep
°
width of
back
belted
sodium
poultice
exhausts
courtship
agora
drain
a home
of you
wind
lashes
fronds
cellophane
°
where a
mammal
bled
activity
not yet
diffused
blackened
patch
of water
weight
of oyster
in gloved
hand he
shucks
dented
pewter
°
assonance
her aspect
relocated
wind
shatters
plexi
phenomena
foregone
for me
shift
at oars
new
muscle
grown
bone
never
held
you
°
case
of dried
apricot
gorge
I am
summoned
capable
a day
outlast
forecast
coral reef
feeler
°
paper
cover
mallet
awl
downfall
fire-
box
androgyne
Copyright Credit: Stacy Szymaszek, “. . . shift at oars” from Emptied of All Ships. Copyright © 2005 by Stacy Szymaszek. Reprinted by permission of Litmus Press.
Source: Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005)