The 2River View | 27.3 (Spring 2023) |
the first part of her story SHE SAID: No. You’re totally wrong It was a night so thick it might have been a dream SHE SAID: I can’t talk right now because my mouth OINTMENT SHE SAID: When you get here, I have to Make sure you grab a really big flashlight I know it’s something beautiful After I got the key & was trying to find the room One offered thirty This parking is obviously full MEANING In college I read a lot of Russian poetry AKHMATOVA, TSVETAEVA But always in English Russian is a really fucking hard Then one day I leaned over into a Now I never read that stuff anymore |
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Ann Pedone is the author of The Medea Notebooks and The Italian Professor’s Wife. Her work has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Barrow Street, Chicago Quarterly Review, New York Quarterly, Best American Poetry’s Pick of the Week, and elsewhere. website
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