Upriver, Downstream (audio only)
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From Revising the Storm (BOA Editions, 2014) by Geffrey Davis. Copyright © 2014 by Geffrey Davis. Used with permission of the author.
As the Pome:
I could ask my petaled voice to cup its first and last notes against the hive’s collapse.
As the Pome:
I could ask my scent to bud in the noses of passersby, could get a heart or two leaping for the season
inside me.
we won’t tell you where it lies, as in time we might need the minor intimacy of that secret.
after Brigit Pegeen Kelly
I.