the fold
the membrane's
mucous
scrim spun n
wretched stretched
a rare warmth
rarer
a rarerrr
air
ayered
heir
errorr
errred
in fleece envied color
lessness a weight
odor and dolor:
the things to rest in
what could bray
could brave would
rave lamb's bony blacken'd
knees a callus and
an anatomy for counting
fell grass sick of it
the much of it
the all of it
and sneezed in hay
a collapsing in whose
wild eye seizes
*
the shade thickens
to hold the shadow
still—not yet
dark
between
the greater sac
flung out
offal for the dogs
Cassandra Eddington lives, writes, and teaches in Fort Collins, Colorado where she received her MFA in Poetry from Colorado State University. She was a finalist in Ahsahta Press' 2012 Sawtooth Poetry Prize competition. Fragments from her long poem "the "hungry matter" were published by Gazing Grains Press as a part of their miniature book series in 2013. Recent poems can be found online in Word For/Word, Otoliths, and ditch.