ABOUT THE FISHMONGER’S WIFE
Careless is a man shucking
brides like bait mussels––
to show such indiscretion,
to fatten so in these times.
Here is the image of a wife
in a thatched smokehouse––
she sleepwalks from fire
to fire, setting start again.
The little oily herring
come wrapped in paper,
whole, of course, or kippered,
or the headless bucklings.
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CARD
Your sunflower vase, a wedding gift,
slipped in my terrible hands.
I wish I weren’t scattered so.
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MIRJAM FROSTH is a Swedish-American poet, photographer, and free climber. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, near a very tall oak tree.
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