An Untitled Collection of Generalizations That Mobilize the Eye
- An Untitled Collection of Generalizations That Mobilize the Eye
My body is a museum:Thirty-three Greek urnsPainted with wrestling boysAnd mythical scenes compriseMy spine. My ribs are theBows of fourteen ancientArchers, pinched from theirGraves—their fingersForever drawing. UnusuallyWell-preserved, my feet are theDelicate slippers of a beloved ChineseWhore, heavily embroidered withVein and shadow. My brain?A lofty sunlit dome, lined with Pietà afterPietà, forty-seven mourningVirgins, each great in their grief andExecution.
My organs areThe furniture galleriesEveryone skips, but for you,Carpenter, standingGuilty-fingered beforeMy heart's armoire,Stroking always toward the grain. [End Page 424]
katie farris is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and translator. She is the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls and the chapbooks Thirteen Intimacies and Mother Superior in Hell. Most recently she is winner of Fairy Tale Review's Flash Fairy Tale Prize, the 2018 Anne Halley Poetry Prize from the Massachusetts Review, and the 2017 Orison Anthology Prize in Fiction. Currently, she is an associate professor at San Diego State University.
