LIES/ISLE  

  FAUNA  

I am no stranger
to this class of frightening things.
This is the wrist of a woman
opening. Turpentine halos, that’s    interior
mantling softening
into pools. What bone
redoubles beneath them—
untangles from understorey, leavening?
An encounter between
fauna and vision, non-metrical
scratching on the screen. We
don’t know how to read
the woman.


  SARA RENEE MARSHALL