Those Other Flowers to Come | Sophie Strand

Sophie Strand is the author of two chapbooks: Love Song To A Blue God (Oread Press) and Fifteen Promises of Our Lady (Metambesen). Her poems have been published by Entropy, Your Impossible Voice, Persephone's Sisters, and The Doris.  _____________ The Debris of a Shape Like the muscles of Magritte’s sky, ether churning within walls, like breath cornered in a lung buoys up although the mouth is shut, or as the mountain pass is so misted that it becomes its own weather, like so, and words roll from their objects, press the ground, bruised. Inconceivably, although the ancient calendars assure us, the subject of the poem threatens, but does not arrive. We walk blind, one foot in and one out. Of what? The whatis propositioned somewhere beyond the cliff’s lip. And the entirety snowballs, white accumulating white as, in the dawn, the memory of the dream erases the dream. Things rip apart. The animals are flayed; the jaguar is torn. Furless, the parts work without touching. A clause is