Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Stacy Szymaszek is the author of several books of poetry (Litmus Press). She is currently the artistic director of the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in New York.
The following is an excerpt from her 2005 book of poems Emptied of All Ships
from "shift at oars"
water
relives
reservoir
boat
bottom
draft
displaced
º
lineal
thought
backward
body
no one
knows
the brains
I am now
_____
tree
an oar
origin
joints ruptured
soak in
deep ink
º
wallpaper
remnant
flower
float
chandelier
brief case
hundred words
logged
erode
my
Arabic
_____
congestion
of resin
person
forecasts
final position
restless sleep
º
width of
back
belted
sodium
poultice
exhausts
courtship
_____
agora
drain
a home
of you
wind
lashes
fronds
cellophane
º
where a
mammal
bled
activity
not yet
diffused
blackened
patch
of water
_____
weight
of oyster
in gloved
hand he
shucks
dented
pewter
º
assonance
her aspect
relocated
wind
shatters
plexi
phenomena
forgone
for me
shift
at oars
new
muscle
grown
bone
never
held
you
º
case
of dried
apricot
gorge
I am
summoned
___________________________
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