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 sisters  

About the author

Claire Farley is a poet, editor, and literary critic from Québec currently living in Los Angeles. She is a founder of the intersectional feminist magazine Canthius and her writing has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Canadian Literature, and The Ex-Puritan. Her first chapbook is Bait & Switch (Anstruther Press, 2020).