Should I Be Fluid All My Life?
- Should I Be Fluid All My Life?
Yesterday he molded to my breastall his passion. As if there were no other frontier to identifyyesterday he traveled me with his eyeswithout provisions, without shelter, guide, translations.He even compared me to the Mongolian Empire!He designed & internalized a fireworks display in the shape of mysoftest expression—spurts of phosphorescent ectoplasm in chrysanthemum patterns—but today, I do my buttons up,I hiss: Now se-pa-rate. [End Page 100]
Miranda Field's first book, Swallow, won a Katherine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Award. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and has received a Discovery/The Nation Award and a Pushcart Prize. She was born and raised in London, and currently teaches poetry at the New School and New York University. She lives in Manhattan with poet Tom Thompson and their two children.
