Research: Journals
The Journal, Issue 31.1
Poetry: "Go Fly a Kite"
by Sarah Vap
If you really knew me, you wouldn’t say that. Enthusiasm is Greek
for gods within. My birthright: wisp-o-halo—the life in the desert canyon
over the life of valleys—dynasty, princelings, sea-trade.
Pink bedside table
I painted with pinker flowers—buttress
where I hoard and am stingy. Where I lift
the sacrifice off. Congratulations
on your lavishness and what you know, biblically. How you keep
marriage alive.
my student who lives in the homeless shelter. Her drive
Freud says uncanny
toward a marriage.
to describe women’s effect on men. But the status of Mary’s
unstable: Mary-mother-of-god, Mary Magdalene,
Contrary, etc. Women
strike bargains of vis-à-vis, crème-
de-la-crème, the world over.
