Peligro
Shira Dentz | Poetry
Water ran from its wetness,
dissolvability, leaking for
a home. Trickling back,
sopping what it left
behind. A crack, like a seam
or scream. Water as stitch,
switch, to which nothing bobs.
To float is benign. Drowning
wasn’t in the cards. But there was
nowhere to stop the current,
the present, running towards
wetness and dissolve.
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including Sisyphusina (Astrophil Press), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, and three chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press) and Patternation (Antiphony Press). Her writing appears in Poetry, APR, Iowa Review, Conjunctions, The Baffler, Blackbird, VOLT, New American Writing, Colorado Review, Annulet, Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Bennington Review, The Rumpus, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org), and NPR. She’s received awards from the Academy of American Poets and Poetry Society of America.