Parallax | Elizabeth Savage

      Elizabeth Savage's most recent book is Idylliad (2015) from Furniture Press Books. She teaches at Fairmont State University in Fairmont, West Virginia and serves as poetry editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature & Art. Recent articles and reviews appear in the Cambridge History of 20th-Century American Poetry, Contemporary Women's Writing, Jacket, and FIELD.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Flowers Outside ItThe camera holdsthe one outside the rest & herapron tiedbehindThis screen& the day on the lawnthey’ve arrangedlike flowers printedfrom lawnOutside itthis knot& the bowabove itarrangedthe wayshe was taughtin the loopsof the yellowabout itvoluntarytemporarypull a s