Crash Landing in the Plaza of An Unknown City / Jia Oak Baker

  dancing girl press, 2015$7.00       Jia Oak Baker is the author of a chapbook, Well Enough to Travel (Five Oaks Press). She is the recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and has been awarded residencies from the Wurlitzer Foundation and Hedgebrook. She lives and teaches in Phoenix, Arizona.    Twitter @jiaoakbaker Instagram @violetsky29       Morphology of Yellow     If what I exhume reveals itself in contradiction— both grotesque and gold—what then?   In visible light I dine on my self, a leg or arm, perhaps. I dream in ochre pigments. Sulfur. Saffron. Ambivalence.   What is a ghost interred but sure silence? No misty wandering. Windless.   Caves of Lascaux.         Tomb of Nakht. The kiss of Judas.   I had a body in the beginning. All winter jasmine and the yolk of an egg. It was beautiful before you gazed upon it—   especially, the face.      ***