You Were Long Days and I Was Tiger-Lined

master wear a mask when you break out the leather
the whip’s encounter loosens the back to plumage

how strange whip’s sibilance moving
through ears like a wet ribbon        harmonium

harpsichord        its lisp then nothingness

it once lived past the pecan orchard        past the barn
where a young girl hung
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—Simone Muench, from Orange Crush

Open submissions season at Sarabande is right around the corner. All comers are welcome in the month of September, and you can find the details here.

RALPH declares Eleanor Lerman's Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds one of the best poetry books of the last fifteen years.

Eleanor Lerman's poetry is back on The Writer's Almanac! Check out "The City, Berobed in Blue" from The Sensual World Re-emerges.

10-14-2010
Post Moxie

4:30 p.m. Q&A 7:30 p.m. Reading Department of English Purdue University 500 Oval Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907

765-494-3740
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/

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