18 November 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 3

The Sacrum Speaks of Cheating

Say I'm the bone once believed

to raise our dead up

from the cold or that I believe

in anything but the speed

of each sublimating tumble

when ice moves directly into air

or when we do, weightless

with craving and do not pass

through water and do not dwell

your limbs any longer on the un-

finished wants I mean walks, miles

dragging the rogue

wind on a leash. Think

of the way we would surely

end. Some aches have no

name but time and oh

how it takes.

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About the author:

Jenny Browne is the author of two collections of poems, At Once and The Second Reason. Her poems have been recently published or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, the Massachusetts Review, Sentence, and the Cincinnati Review. Recent work is also featured in the Blanton Museum's poetry project. Formerly a James Michener Fellow in Poetry at the University of Texas, she now teaches at Trinity University and lives in downtown San Antonio.

For further reading:

See the complete list of work by Jenny Browne at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 8, No. 3, where "The Sacrum Speaks of Cheating" ran on November 18, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.

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