Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
The Descent
by
Sharon Olinka
I've heard coral fish speak.
Felt roots grind.
Teeth turned
to flutes. Parallel parked
in gossamer lanes,
only to find
the car gone.
No safe return
guaranteed. No Virgil.
Profusion
of lush trumpet flowers.
Pound of surf
on false, bright glass.
Speed of loss.
Sucked in.
Always sucked in.
This loss.
Desire flamed to hell.
Lying crap.
Orpheus. Persephone.
Take them back! Dioramas
from the wax museum.
Don't look farther.
Song comes.
But the fruit
stays bitter.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Sharon Olinka
USA
Sharon Olinka has recently had poetry appear in Barrow Street and Nimrod. She has work forthcoming in the New York Quarterly. In 2004, Ishe taught a writing workshop for the
Department of American Studies of Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir. Her second book The Good City (Marsh Hawk Press, 2006) deals with the creation of the modern republic
of Turkey. Poems from the book won a Barbara Deming Memorial Award in 2006.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
