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.
