Araki

Aug 5

Written By Alisha Dietzman

Your thin pink

arms, spasming

at night, after

the fire. After

the liquid plastic.

Houses don’t burn

like trees.

I’ve never seen

anything burn

down, to black,

to abstraction.

The play of light

before the end-work,

romantic, I guess.

Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie (Beacon Press, 2023), selected by Victoria Chang for the National Poetry Series. A finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Oregon Book Awards, Sweet Movie was also shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Her creative and critical work has received support from the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.

Alisha Dietzman

Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie (Beacon Press, 2023), selected by Victoria Chang for the National Poetry Series. A finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Oregon Book Awards, Sweet Movie was also shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Her creative and critical work has received support from the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.

https://www.alishadietzman.com/

Araki

Sphagia

TO THE TUNE “SHUI DIAO GE TOU: SONG OF WATER”