A review by crunden
Uncanny Magazine Issue 37: November/December 2020 by Chimedum Ohaegbu, Elsa Sjunneson, Michael Damian Thomas, Lynne M. Thomas
4.0
⚜ poetry review ⚜
I leave
your number; not to grieve,
nor as one surviving;
But just to leave
As ever, my poetry stanning cannot be sated. I read Making Accommodations by Valerie Valdes, An Elder Resigns from the Chorus of Oedipus at Colonnus by Peter Tancy, Cento for Lagahoos by Brandon O’Brien and The Automaton Falls in Love by Jennifer Crow.
I mean, how lovely is Making Accommodations:
I’ve tried to thin
my bones and sinews, ink myself in lines
so small, so shrinking, safe to overlook—
passed between palms, a secret note in school,
crumpled and cast into a fire as fuel,
or pressed between the pages of a book
I leave
your number; not to grieve,
nor as one surviving;
But just to leave
As ever, my poetry stanning cannot be sated. I read Making Accommodations by Valerie Valdes, An Elder Resigns from the Chorus of Oedipus at Colonnus by Peter Tancy, Cento for Lagahoos by Brandon O’Brien and The Automaton Falls in Love by Jennifer Crow.
I mean, how lovely is Making Accommodations:
I’ve tried to thin
my bones and sinews, ink myself in lines
so small, so shrinking, safe to overlook—
passed between palms, a secret note in school,
crumpled and cast into a fire as fuel,
or pressed between the pages of a book