Dream 17: Super Moon (with Aaron Belz)

Molting like Constantinople,

the sound of loneliness tonight:

some wives view the eclipse

from the shore & trade husbands,

not any ordinary husbands, but

primal anthropomorphisms of their

first desires. Just as the sirens begin,

each husband collapses—each sewn

with plankton & crushed pearls to the

unlocked arms of other wives, each wife

linked to another wife, each finger

stitched with nets to the forearms of

proud, marching husbands.

Lina ramona Vitkauskas is the author of SPINY RETINAS (Mutable Sound, 2014); Professional Poetry (White Hole Press, 2013); A Neon Tryst (Shearsman Books, 2013); HONEY IS A SHE (Plastique Press, 2012); and THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2010).

She is the recipient of the Henry Miller Memorial Library Ping Pong Journal Prize (selected by Eleni Sikelianos) and The Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading Award (selected by Brenda Hillman).

Publications include Spork, Coconut, The Awl, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, The Chicago Review, The Toronto Quarterly—among many others.

With Larry Sawyer, she has co-edited milk magazine (since 1999). She has also served as a part-time faculty member at the Chicago School of Poetics for 2011-2013. Her website is www.linaramona.com.