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5 October 2006 | Vol. 6, No. 3

In the Year of the Etruscans

In the Year of the Etruscans

We moved to a saltbox

Sinking in a salt marsh.


Water black as grape must

Mirrored brackish lies.

Clouds, cranes, hay repeated themselves darkly.


My water-self opened our water-door

With a water-key, stepped across

The rippled threshold.


I loved him like salt.

His low-slung madras, clashing shirt,

Neck strung with poison berries.


The sea was somewhere else. Summer somewhere else.

We hived an almond tub,

One romantic, deadly fish.

About the author:

Claudia Burbank is the recipient of a fellowship from the state of New Jersey as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, and Borderlands.

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