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Blood and Skin

A Poem by Molly Cara

I. The performer curls himself around thesubway pole like he’s a vine of ivy.Some of the captive audience clap andothers turn their heads.II. On..

Music of the Spheres

A Poem by Molly Cara

I close the blinds over the town outside,where the raindrops have clawed at the window,where the air is slicked with mist that missedthe storm this mo..

Of Losing More

A Poem by Molly Cara

Come back, with thicker hair and thicker skin,freer in the deeper part of summer.Here we have birdsong, bugsong, pine needleslike long fingernails. Al..

Sweet As If

A Poem by Molly Cara

Sweet As If Come Fall, I’ll be in the house behind the bush of white and violet lilacs. I’ll taste peaches, sweet as if they..

Coney Island

A Poem by Molly Cara

I cross the boardwalk to the sand to the Atlantic,the color of green quartz. No waves.Just a few folds in the ocean.So many heads, and necks, and shou..

So Bad

A Poem by Molly Cara

Morning storms in warm. She’s draped inshapeless shade. The drapes part.Part of the rain still falls,and lands in the seagreen grass.The trees h..

Endsummer

A Poem by Molly Cara

The scene wavers through the smoke.Hot coals in the clouds light them orangetill they glow.Till we blow them grey,like smoke from a runaway flame.Like..

River

A Poem by Molly Cara

Your lower lip quivers.Your tongue laps the shore and splashes.The sun sinks into you.I slip into you, into the ripplingspotlight. I sip you like whit..

So You Can Follow

A Poem by Molly Cara

Half these trees are shadows, but which ones?Something’s clouding the lens of the sun.Maybe clouds.It’s after amber hours. Not black. Whit..

Cloud Line

A Poem by Molly Cara

Bugs hum. Mist thickens the horizon.The moon rises, then falls behind thecloud line.She slides like an ice cube down thesurface of the sky. She settle..