Sherod Santos Poems

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1.
Work

Pushing off on her back out
Into the fishpond's cold
Archaic glitter, my naked wife
Could not have guessed how
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2.
A Feeling of AND, a Feeling of OR

The window in mid-summer raised, and where
the screen intersects with the frame, a web of circular
tensile silks radiating outward from the central lair
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3.
The Air Base at Châteauroux, France

In the American schoolyard
where we lunged headfirst
onto the rocky ground scrab-
bling for a ball
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4.
from Elegy for My Sister

24.

In the last photograph of my sister, she is
sprawling in the shade, or what shade's left,
on the converted toolshed's whitewashed steps.
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5.
Fermanagh Cave

An emerald dungeon's blacklight glow
glimmered in the deeper reaches
where my son and I could hear the slub
of water riddling through the muck.
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6.
A Woman Named Thucydides

Having slept in a turnout in the backseat
of her car, she awoke before dawn, shivering,
hungover, unsure of where she was.
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7.
Near the Desert Test Sites (Palm Desert, California)

—for Logan and Renée Jenkins
Unlike almost everything
Else just surviving here
In summer, poison flowers
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8.
Out of the World There Passed a Soul

The day of my mother's funeral I spend clearing out
her overgrown flower beds, down on my knees
in the leaf rot, nut shells, tiny grains of sandlot sand
spilling from the runoff gullies. The hot work was to see
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9.
Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold

I.

Did he think that disguise would fool me? Gathering about
His balding head those filthy rags, poor-mouthing
His way beside my fire, then gazing into the looking glass
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