Annunciation
- Annunciation
Who will gather thiswoman you can see almostthroughcrooked and bonethe sex
of soundness. Whowill gather herin hands certainand not unlikedevotion in a curveof afternoon hauntednakednesswhere smoke rises.
Heaven and its olivethe whole fleshsolacethe hipsthe chantthe hands holdpull into.
Who willgatherin this hiding placethe barefoot bodythe unstrung pearls. [End Page 120]
Catherine Strisik is author of Thousand-Cricket Song (Plain View Press, 2010); her manuscripts in progress have placed as finalists and semifinalists in many national poetry contests including the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, Cleveland State Poetry Prize, University of Wisconsin Poetry Series, Kore Press, the Washington Prize, and WordWorks Poetry Prize. She has recently completed her third collection, The Mistress. Active in the Taos poetry community for more than thirty years, Strisik has received grants, honors, and prizes from Peregrine, Comstock Review, and the Puffin Foundation, as well as a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her many publication credits include Drunken-boat, Tusculum Review, Comstock Review, Awakenings Review, Cider Press Review, Studio, and others. She is co-editor of the online journal Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art.
