Forgive the silence — our household is utterly entrenched in illness, and it appears that it will remain so for the immediate future as a virulent cold virus holds us hostage.
In the meantime, I’ve been reading Lisa Russ Spaar’s Satin Cash, which contains such lush, smart language — I spent Vincent’s too-brief naptime letting these poems wash over me.
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One example:
Womb*
What antecedent
for this intramural void,my native, deep-seated
well — null, untenanted,sulking place, finger-
slip of truancy, of minus —if not this cave above:
bludgeon of boudoir stars,chivalric piñata,
quixotic hourglassinfinitely contracting:
negative, vernacular, lone?
Marie Gauthier 
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