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Anya Groner

IRENE’S SONG, AGE 86

 

I tell you, someone     is stealing     birds     from the sky.
My teeth       keep crawling            back
into my mouth.                                             Outside
            the window   is not    California.
                                                                                          Snow.
            A dog visits.  I touch his face.
I met Seymour at a swimming pool, and now the ladies
                 come
green pills and cranberry juice:                bills.
                         Where are my rabbit fur gloves?
        The state of?
The bearded man      is Seymour,    or
            he is my son.                           Shake my hand,
                                                                                              you.
I seem to have misplaced my        glasses, my     husband.
                                                          If I had this     to do over.
I tell you, this     will       not
                                                                                                 do.
      I once had a strong body, then I         used it.
Rain is:                 fat.                Today is:   I can’t
Outside:    the grass,      the lake,       the flag,        the rope.
      I look for my water.                                   Shatter on tile.
Who’s that
                      on the TV,        pale legs dangling,
                                                                        humming
Shabbat songs?
                            I’ll tell you the secret    of my     porcelain
garden:    The rosebush is not a               rosebush.
                                                The shovel sleeps standing up.

 

 

 


 

Anya Groner‘s poetry and fiction have appeared in journals including FlatManCrooked, Word Riot, Story South, Memphis Magazine, and Umbrella Journal. She recently received her MFA from the University of Mississippi where she held a Grisham fellowship in fiction. She continues to teach and write in Oxford, Mississippi.

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