[ Pastoral No ]
A body ripe
in the land in
the soft weight of everything
O take this old stove’s soot
and mark the bed frame
Let the blackout come
I faintly hurt, I bruise, I pool
She lives now in slack
exposing
too much too fast
Kimberly Swendson is a poet and translator from Colorado. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame and her M.F.A. in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa where she held an Iowa Arts Fellowship. Her work can be found in ballast, Bruiser Magazine, and elsewhere.
The Marbled Sigh 