[ Voices Are Rolling Over the Mountain ]
And I am myself receding and
you are yourself
only in this instance
Call it all an occasion
to be direct.
A hand gripping the back of my neck,
a loaded and cocked gesture
genuflecting again and again
with glacial precision
This is the mirroring
effect. A throaty experience. Sounding how
he wants
My hand
has always been the one
missing
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 