The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Honeymoon Shoes by Valyntina Grenier

This selection, chosen by Guest Editor t.r. san, is from Honeymoon Shoes by Valyntina Grenier (Cathexis Northwest Press 2023).

Square Dance

No other over you for the climate fire to end this whorl in wonder desire w/ our life’s
great fortune confounded by virus/ police violence Cancel the rockets Spread out the
world-weary sheet again over our brains/ banners/ bones Nirvana wins our hearts twin
the hypotenuse to a new song on the radio we in wonder will we go with our lucky love
north to Portland to the Oregon coast/ sunset sky/ halcyon line/ quiet/ freedom from
heat wave of Chaos feast

Valyntina Grenier (she/her) is a multi-genre artist living in Eugene, Oregon. She is the author of four chapbooks and one full length collection. You can find those books at Bottlecap Press, Finishing Line Press, Cathexis Northwest Press and various places where books are sold. Her latest poems and visual art can be found in Beyond Words Magazine, Beyond Queer Words, Cathexis, Querencia and Wild Roof Journal. You can find her, her visual art, and links to her work around the web at valyntinagrenier.com.

t.r. san is a poet and translator currently based on Gadigal land, with recent work found in minor literature[s], The Cincinnati Review, HAD, Smokelong Quarterly, The Offing, &c. read & reach @thoushallkill on Twitter, or trsan.neocities.org.