
Pointillism
Poet Claire Farley offers new work in Issue 35: Fall 2016 of The Puritan. We run an annual poetry competition; see our submissions page for more details.
In Paris ask fourchette
& a boiled egg is served, in Fès
map medina lines in sugar cubes
endless concentric squares
to step in & out
or was it Dusseldorf, Hyderabad,
Calgary where I licked rogue grains from fingertips?
Reading Le Soir,
pourchassée en Italie, tolérée en Espagne
my hyphen a fissure border
to bore beneath, lightly
Nijmegen square, sip coffee
wear purple dress (a viable risk)
light rebounds each mote prism
plum composes occasion
Pin drops, pointillism
a step in either direction enjambs
horizon & I wake twice—
once, newsprint palm tongue
stained w/ turmeric
twice, my bony satellite fist
stuffed in your armpit
Beijing Cairo Ottawa Catania
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