Fraya

{

I draw my reflection which goes something like this:

In a vein
we twist glass
with rounded corners
Mercury swells in
the boondocks
fraying like straw
Wild imprint
of the tiny
girl at a
distance
both watching
from shore, and sailing

I twist both corners rounded fraying like shore }

SHIRA DENTZ

Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK, 2020), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021, and two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Pleiades, Plume, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Idaho Review, New American Writing, Black Warrior Review, Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner, Apartment, Poets.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Prize, and Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award. She currently lives and works in upstate NY.