Today's poem is by Cori A. Winrock
Portrayal, X-Ray
We snag cabs and drift through the middle
of the night. The city a cathedralwe are ushered into, press our ears against
listen for the sea sliding insideits shell: the hushed shuffle
of feet across a pearlingasphalt nave, elapsed traffic, or blank radio
frequencies. The windows seal us inwith the damp heat of our breathing.
Outside the lakes lace themselves with ice.In this particular depiction we play at staying
mum, at detecting the pre-blushblush, at transforming
the stray flock of ambulance lights burst liveinto a charm of humming-
birds. If it's romantic to architect a thingback into its bones:imagine us in ruins
from the start.
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from Colorado Review
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