Shira Dentz


 


& starting to see unleafed


sunny peach,
the red pit in all its glory, on its yellow throne.


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the man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles
of the mind.

they say women become more free. makes you think of maude gonne.
riding a horse. bridle. different parts of your body jostling in the saddle.

the sun has a blue face. hue do. violet orange. who has violet eyes orlando. a
trees’ leaves in the shape of the eiffel. a cake. womb.

Garden nothing holding it together
gonne.

the sun has a blue face. hue branches
colors

maybe it’s okay then to body at night, starting to see unleafed feeling
cold on my shoulders but autumn and you’re watching the green do.
violet orange. they say women your body


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and as imagination bodies forth ye forms of things unseen—turns them to
shape & gives to airy Nothing a local habitation & a Name

Orange. who has violet eyes free. a trees’ leaves in the starting to see
unleafed shoulders but don’t want to give in this time you’re unpopped
my do I even know how.

they say women become more branches
colors
hot hot shape of the eiffel.

the sun sister. not letting go an untended garden

misshapen. think of maude gonne. riding a horse. bridle. orange. who
has violet eyes branches
colors
okay then


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Deduct from a rose its redness. from a lily its whiteness from a diamond
its hardness from a spunge its softness from an oak its heighth from a daisy

its lowness

& starting to see unleafed

ovum. incubation. ovum. incubation. ovum.
incubatio

you’re autumn and you’re the green with orlando.


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a rose & a lily. are various. & both beautiful.

ves you’re face. they with oranches body jostling
out parts of ther, not how. wher one hairs & starts.

violetting a women becomen. her,
to see unpopped colors &
starting to write colors make. riding ther, nothink of you feeling
various. violet eyes but parts of your body at because one has

 






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