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Poetry
Lost
by Nanette Rayman
Tonight the earth is leopard and ash, moths
necklace my throat, unitemized rain against
my cheek is pink as poppies hidden under the lid
of earth's powder box, like ripe-smelling sex,
balmy awning to the face, jangling a corsage of rose
to the pulse, and now askew, soft, in a lagging liquid
like love. There's a little girl here;
dollbaby, hoarse from lacquered seed, bumped
by deep-voiced birds, she howls defiance
I had to be like this, how would I survive?
You must have gone back to explore that tobacco tasting woman,
your tender bark skin speared one piece at a time, her waiting
nipples placed like oysters in your mouth.
I will be a woman, and bougainvillea, I'll give the moon
a shove. And I am left alone to listen to the tar-voiced
news of the new Medea, post-partum in aquarium din,
numbering the minnows drowned, as they fell to be lost, wailed
as I do, as I loose my upswept hair, eyes painted open under bridge.
Nanette Rayman has published poetry in NetAuthor's E2K, Circle Magazine, The Doomed City Journal, Comrades, Comrades Anthology, Poetry Motel, Tyro's Pen, 5 Trope, The American Muse and Disquieting Muses, Stirring, PoetryMagazine, Samsara Print Circles of Regret, and Poetry SuperHighway as Poet of the Week twice. She earned an honorable mention in the Writer's Digest Fiction 2000 contest, and has fiction published in the Onyx Journal, Attic, Comrades, and Carve. Upcoming publications include Octavo, The Concrete Wolf, Dakota House Journal, Wired Arts for Wired Hearts.