NIGHT VINES
A wind eye, an edgeless road, a bull’s body. We
are its migrants. A sharp or flat note depending
on context. Just area, undeveloped. We bask in
its incognito. Fold our bare selves inside and out
of it. Silent then shrill before climbing with light.
We try to get up close.
Biographical Statement
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including Sisyphusina (Astrophil Press), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, and three chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Conjunctions, The Baffler, Blackbird, VOLT, New American Writing, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail, Annulet, Apartment, Lana Turner, Poets.org, and NPR. She’s received awards from the Academy of American Poets and Poetry Society of America, and recently received NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction and an NEA/NYS arts grant. More at shiradentz.com