The spine is a curving schema invisible behind its thick impediments a cursive, yellowing life in the in-between ruled by Snake who beckoned Eve to bother the tree of laws and this is the law that shook fruit from the branch and dropped us leafless such that leaves were plucked from honeyed figs to field the barest genitalia in here, the path will lurch from rung to rung in pedicles and arches for the nerves and yet from this perspective neither certainty nor uncertainty modesty nor immodesty only a pink/red/blue that gossips with ligaments and marrow blood stones, cells, and teethers cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal, chakral bodied by birds with my life in its wintering wrap of nothing-flesh to feel the exterior nip in brocade tatters snow on grass and the rotting shed whilst garden implants the winter thin.
Rebecca Reynolds has published two books of poetry with New Issues Press: Daughter of the Hangnail, and The Bovine Two-Step. Her first book, Daughter of the Hangnail, received the 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award, from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in print and online journals and reviews, including Quarterly West, Boston Review of Books, Web Conjunctions, Jacket, American Letters and Commentary, The Literary Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, and Verse, among others.
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