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Tuesday, September 03, 2024

A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE

by Shira Dentz


Red sunset interspersed with Saharan sands 
that wind carried over the Atlantic, 
red like the Creature’s ear grazed, 
up top, against its white sunlit shirt. 
Red like tycoons billowing 
buffoons flying high on greed. 
A storming sky and ocean 
are identical twins so your nostrils stir 
to take in salt spray from a lone sky. 
You want to linger in the horizonless dolphin silver 
away from what’s constructed, like time, 
stationed at this light signaling red. 


Shira Dentz is the author of five books including Sisyphusina (PANK Books), winner of the Nassar Prize 2021, and two chapbooks including Flounders (Essay Press). Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, VOLT, New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Colorado Review, Idaho Review, Allium, Court Green, New Orleans Review, Puerto del Sol, NELLE, Nat. Brut, Apartment, AnnuletPoem-a-DayPoetry Daily, Verse Daily, Poetry Society of America, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards.