A curtain's frizz is
stagey and black
in certain viscous kitchens
ripped off minutely carved houses
trailing floor boards and cook books
before softly coming
with whore and infant down gently
Brian Willems -- brianwillems@gmail.com
-- is an American teaching British and Irish literature at the University
of Split in Croatia. His work has been or will be published in the
Antioch Review, Salzburg Poetry Review, Milk Magazine, Things Magazine,
Pindeldyboz, Prague Literary Review and others.
All
work on Identity Theory -- with the exception of the public-domain
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