Un/raveled (3)


dialectic of going
beneath her water
keep not bleeding

& imagine her weeping
lay down    the drama
a car in parts still

dredged soil
where did you last
apply ice

thirty years from
nudity rated
all ears    i see

forsake such sense
the masks removed
so am i


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Ellen Boyette is a poet and student of the Occult and lover of all small things. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book of poetry, BEDIEVAL, was a finalist at Slope Editions, CSU Press, and Inside the Castle. Her work appears in jubilat, The Columbia Review, Denver Quarterly, Prelude, Bennington Review, poets.org, and elsewhere. She is the author of two chapbooks, NITROUS OR MY VELVET KNIFE and CUFFING SEASON.