Glass Armonica

PILL

The good, thick wool of it.

Whorl of ointment.
The bandage lovingly applied.

Come, night. Come, sleep.
Come, fog, wreathed in feather
and sift. My face
cast impassive as a queen.

The cut white moon.

The selfsame body beside me
in bed, so sweet
and still I could die for her.

Ice-drift
and near-miss in early morning traffic.

My palm like a crumpled kiss.

REBECCA DUNHAM is the author of two collections of poems, The Miniature Room and The Flight Cage. She was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her poems have appeared widely in such journals as Prairie Schooner, AGNI, and the Antioch Review. She is a professor in the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

COVER DESIGN BY GRETCHEN ACHILLES/WAVETRAP DESIGN
COVER ARTWORK BY ©SIRYLOK/VEER