Dana Curtis
The Nature of Satiety
Not love, not worship, but a new
form of devotion beyond those because
personal considerations trouble us
no longer -- the day is
overcast and humid like a high priest
absolving a leper and screeching
"unclean!" We point at
the day howling "not nice!" We don't have to
sit outside but we do --it feels
like a bad piece
of velvet -- a set piece, waving
like our defeated flag, like
what will taste good, taste
fruit that is not forbidden but
still to evolve--Dodo bird destined
for the top of the food chain.
Dana Curtis’ second full-length collection of poetry, Camera Stellata, was published by CW Books. Her first full-length collection, The Body's Response to Famine, won the Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Prize. She has also published seven chapbooks: Book of Disease (in the magazine, The Chapbook), Antiviolet ( Pudding House Press), Pyromythology (Finishing Line Press), Twilight Dogs (Pudding House Press), Incubus/Succubus (West Town Press), Dissolve (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press), and Swingset Enthralled (Talent House Press). Her work has appeared in such publications as Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Prairie Schooner. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Elixir Press and lives in Denver Colorado.
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Not love, not worship, but a new
form of devotion beyond those because
personal considerations trouble us
no longer -- the day is
overcast and humid like a high priest
absolving a leper and screeching
"unclean!" We point at
the day howling "not nice!" We don't have to
sit outside but we do --it feels
like a bad piece
of velvet -- a set piece, waving
like our defeated flag, like
what will taste good, taste
fruit that is not forbidden but
still to evolve--Dodo bird destined
for the top of the food chain.
Dana Curtis’ second full-length collection of poetry, Camera Stellata, was published by CW Books. Her first full-length collection, The Body's Response to Famine, won the Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Prize. She has also published seven chapbooks: Book of Disease (in the magazine, The Chapbook), Antiviolet ( Pudding House Press), Pyromythology (Finishing Line Press), Twilight Dogs (Pudding House Press), Incubus/Succubus (West Town Press), Dissolve (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press), and Swingset Enthralled (Talent House Press). Her work has appeared in such publications as Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Prairie Schooner. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Elixir Press and lives in Denver Colorado.
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