
This selection, chosen by Managing Editor Krista Cox, is from My Tarantella by Jennifer Martelli, released by Bordighera Press in 2018.
In the North End
Boston loomed, lit: a wasp’s nest ignited and inhaled. My friend’s
lungs stopped for five sweet panic-seconds. Two millennia ago,
Sappho said in some future time someone will think of you. I said count.
In nineteen-nineteen, the brick streets in the North End flooded
with a million gallons of thick blackstrap molasses. My friend’s big
red heart beat: four valves vibrating, a mandolin tremolo. Count. The
asters. The Pleiades.

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