
This selection, chosen by guest curator and Sundress intern Katherine DeCoste, is from No Other Rome by Heather Green, released by University of Akron Press in 2021.
The Angel is an Amalgam
For Ladrea Icaza
In winter he wore a winter beard
He was sky high in the spring
His head grew light he let down the most
Delicate line he said get in the car
& on the ride a thick red book fell
From his mouth like a lullaby
He told how you crossed that chalky line
I didn’t sleep I cried I curled
To the window on the passenger side
& just like that I remembered back
I asked him changer or destroyer?
He just narrowed his eyes and said
Forever in a wave like the pushy sound
A seashell makes then he slowed
His hand down the backs of my legs
And you know me I could not
Believe him but I was made smaller
For a time by desire I was sorry
Lad I’m sorry because all this time
I never said your name
It thundered and when the angel said
Defenestration he pushed a flat
Hand to the side & I fell down fast


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