we
might float
outside gravity
even inside
gravity
even inside ourselves.
Diffuse, reuse, recluse
A pursed utterance.
A ribbed body.
A fan-shaped shell
hanging from a rooster’s neck
like a tie,
an anchor
holding us to ground
when
otherwise
we
might float
outside gravity

Shira Dentz is author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021), and two chapbooks. Her writing appears in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, VOLT, Gulf Coast, New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Award.