Let Us Talk About It as Though It Existed
Draw a square in the dust on my forehead.The square should be crooked and quietlike a house before its collapse. No carpetsin this house. Many drawings.I would like to gather the drawingsone by one into my bed.Folded like a leaflet, or like a seatin an empty theater, or like armsin a drafty room, I will sleep with themin the sleep that comes after countingextension cords. The drawings will dreamof faulty wiring and dimming lights.
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Copyright © 2022 by Eva Heisler.
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Eva Heisler has published two books of poetry: Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic and Drawing Water. Honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Emily Dickinson Award and fellowships at MacDowell and Millay Arts. Poems have appeared in Bomb, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, The Grist, Heavy Feather Review, The Ilanot Review, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry Northwest. She was co-winner of the 2021 Poetry International Prize.
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