OUT OF PRINT

Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award Series
Winner of the 2002-03 Chapbook Award
ISBN 1-886350-61-2
30 pages, 5.5 by 8.5
$6.00

Lisa Samuels teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Letters (1996) and The Seven Voices (1998) and editor of an annotated reprint of Laura Riding's Anarchism Is Not Enough (2001). She has recent poems and essays in Denver Quarterly, Aufgabe, Delmar, New Literary History, and elsewhere.

Pieces from this collection first appeared in: Can We Have Our Ball Back, Muse Apprentice Guild and Traverse.

All the watches in the closet are safe

like you, surrendered to a sudden
place, an ache within the folds I wish
were gutted and amenable

stars rise and fall inside your ears
like caves for what you see or
do not wish, these placid convolutions
made like daisies-arrival is a prefect

curved responsibly, seven torments
find you basking quiet as crystals
invoked protective naming to be,
as if wales risen outside your body

round and pale, linger like a well-thought
rune, heuristic angles offering themselves
replacing the invisible as if