The Docket
by Shira Dentz
photo by Benni Fish on Pexels
This landing strip has seen many falls—
shoehorn soft gliding into a shoe
or curdling against the pressure
presence of time drifting
then landing a perfect minimalist
geometry otherwise known as
settled like home.
This landing strip has seen many falls—
shoehorn left shapely into a shoe or
curdling against the pressure all
charisma of time drifting then
landing a turning minimalist geo-
me-try otherwise known as
settled some mummy of home.
This landing strip has seen many falls—
shoehorn soft gliding into a shoe
or wabbling against the prophesy
and protense of time to thawless
belly home.
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK, 2020), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021, and two chapbooks. Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Plume, jubilat, New American Writing, Lana Turner, Black Warrior Review, Lit, Idaho Review, Denver Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, Poets.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and Poetry Society of America. More at www.shiradentz.com
