Art Strips Life Clean
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When the ghost-music of memory moanslike the monsters in old movies, when it goesabout its barter, rustling up the ruins.When it bounces them like runes carved on rocksaround the mind's wide cave. When caves [End Page 165] cave in on themselves, when wideness mindsonly its business, when mines the darkness.
But when the sonnet of the sternum strikes itselfagainst old stones, when the strike's for more,when the stress unmoors the ribcage. Whenthe ribs break slowly open and expose the— When the posed heart unbrakes.When the hart, for its sake. When the stakesare steeper. When the stubborn steak of selfsleeps. There life awaits, there leaps. [End Page 166]
C. J. Sage resides in Rio Del Mar, California, where she works as a Realtor. She also edits the National Poetry Review and teaches poetry at De Anza College. Her books include Odyssea (WordTech) and Field Notes in Contemporary Literature (Dream Horse P). She is the editor of And We the Creatures (Dream Horse P). Her poems appear in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, the Antioch Review, and the Threepenny Review, among others.
