Narcotic Silks / Alexandra Isaacson

  dancing girl press, 2014$7.00 Alexandra Isacson is an Arizona State graduate who lives and teaches in the Phoenix area. She is the author of the poetry chapbook written to honor the visual arts & humanities, Poetic Anthropologies, (Medulla Publishing, 2011). She is a Pushcart (2012, 2010) & Best of the Net Anthology (2009) nominee.Iris Dreams The moon bleeds white halos into blue. Barn owls wing restless among palm tree nests,breaking the night skin with night shrieks.Tongue & talons anticipatethe quick ofclaret foretaste. Feather gowns drift- eternal in beds of iristissue dreams, shivering in wind arabesques. Dawn scores openthe charcoal sky, & shatter into glass windows of stained light.