new from above/ground press: Lion’s Den, a chiasmus, by Jessica Smith

Lion’s Den, a chiasmus
Jessica Smith
$5

 

over a hundred lamps         were found                            in the dark

                                                limestone plates   filled will fuel

                                       

                                                a more intricate    carved sandstone

                                                                                                like a spoon for fire

                                                hearths and resinous torches

                                                smell of pine and lemon

little we see in nature that is ours

                                                lit within lit from within

                                                goodnight light

                                                tell myself my story

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Jessica Smith is the author of numerous chapbooks including Trauma Mouth (Dusie 2015) and The Lover is Absent (above/ground press, 2017) and three full-length books of poetry, Organic Furniture Cellar (Outside Voices 2006), Life-List (Chax Press 2015), and How to Know the Flowers (Veliz Books 2019). She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

This is Smith's fourth chapbook with above/ground press, after Shifting Landscapes (2006), MNEMOTECHNICS (2013) and The Lover is Absent (2017).

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