Nang Ta-khian murmurs to me
carve your name into my skin
i won’t flinch
if you go deep
lie beneath me and make love
to someone else
i will hold you while you sleep
i don’t mind you dancing
on my toes
swaying gently with my groans
know that i’ll
stand by you still
bow and bend me to your will
and when you’re old
but not as old as me
lean your back against my side
i will eat you
while
you lie
we’ll be married in the spring
when you burst out of my skin
a leaf-bud unfurling in the sun
or some such
precious thing
This selection comes from the book, out of emptied cups, available from Salmon Poetry. Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Tierney Bailey.
Originally from the west of Ireland and living in Sydney, Australia, Anne Casey is author of two poetry collections— ‘out of emptied cups’ (Salmon Poetry 2019) and ‘where the lost things go’ (Salmon Poetry 2017). Her poetry is widely published internationally— The Irish Poetry Reading Archive (James Joyce Library, University College Dublin), The Irish Times, The Canberra Times, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Quiddity, Entropy, apt, The Murmur House, Barzakh (State University of New York), DASH (California State University), The Stony Thursday Book, FourXFour, Westerly Magazine, Cordite, Verity La and Plumwood Mountain Review among many others. A journalist, magazine editor, legal author and media communications director for 30 years, her work is widely published internationally, ranking in leading national daily newspaper, The Irish Times’ Most Read. Anne’s poetry has won/shortlisted for awards in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the USA, the UK, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia.
Tierney Bailey is a Libra, a lover of science fiction and poetry, and studies Korean in her spare time. Currently, Tierney is an associate poetry editor at Sundress Publications, a copyeditor at Strange Horizons, and a freelance graphic designer. Tierney earned a Masters Degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College. Tierney is most easily found screaming into the void on Twitter as @ergotierney.
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