5 September 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 3
Universal Fornication
One star sharpens
and blindly pours out
all its death, one's pinned
open, a yellow surge
emerges in a slur
of eyes rolling back
Once I had a different eye
allergic to focus, averted
to prove its privacy
to pirate a roughening dusk
Guide demos my silver
air sign on hilltop, I shiver
up to a doubling-point
Call it Willful, Wishful
the correspondence
continues to unstupefy
Each star turns on
my chances of
each star turns
on my chances
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About the author:
Christine Hume is the author of Musca Domestica (Beacon Press 2000), Alaskaphrenia (New Issues 2004), and a chapbook (with CD by James Marks), Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense (Ugly Ducking Presse 2008). She is an associate professor of English at Eastern Michigan University.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Christine Hume at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 8, No. 3, where "Universal Fornication" ran on September 5, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
