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Still Life
for e.e. cummings
—how deep and many a bottom
have spread themselves
so wide
upon your four and wooden
sturdy cockeyed
legs twin
sets (the one
in front so rapt
urous the one in back—
coy—displays
coquettishness) the flat
hole low
—how do
they do
it this duoistic
set of
spandrels corners quite
simply
by their back their shared
and common
space
spritely exquisite
ly hand
hewn by faeries right
angles—just
slightly—capped
by wide bands
hold
up high your bottom
s nymphs—
Jeff Fearnside’s poetry has appeared in Permafrost, Blue Earth Review, Assisi, ProtestPoems.org, and The Los Angeles Review. His poems were twice named finalists in Glimmer Train’s national Poetry Open contests. His chapbook Lake, and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land, winner of the Standing Rock Cultural Arts 2010 Open Poetry Chapbook Competition, was published in 2011. (See his website for more details.) He lives with his wife and two cats in Prescott, Arizona.
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