21 September 2006 | Vol. 6, No. 3

panegyrize

by ERICA W. ADAMS

she is good as dog is good,

winter making its small fist &

rattle. made complicit

with the cracked lamp

trussed to inside windows

and panes, the neighbor

watching her fours, the

slow satisfaction of

mimic: her body posturing

in the shadow of pane,

the window as easel, he

peers her silhouette as a

proud thing, a lamp

catching & deflecting

marionettes of body-

work, the panes of her

body exposed through

a stage curtain, this

slant, her stark shadow,

a swaying, a snowstorm

embrocates the body & her

unveiling, he watches

her well: doing well

as the dog does well.