Creative Nonfiction / EssayPoetry

On Weather: Upstate New York Gray

written by Shira Dentz July 9, 2017

*orchids tumbling in the air, scot-free.

 

Upstate New York Gray (no. 1)

 

skullcap gray cream-yellow gray blue-linen gray moon gray peek-a-boo gray dismissive gray altar gray collar gray bitch gray dizzy gray still gray moron gray lost gray crawling gray brick gray straight gray tumble gray fluent gray gray fatty gray sea gray pray gray stain gray jelly gray duplicitous gray duplicate gray past gray reminder gray present gray future gray dejavu gray halo gray one-too-many gray ¾ gray distant gray petit gray schmear gray lobotomy gray dual gray musk gray tranquil gray dream gray annual gray behind-the-scenes gray floaty gray quotidian gray cream shrewd gray gay gray gray gray trans gray sheer gray dissolute gray ultra gray pond gray pencil gray porcupine gray relaxant gray reluctant gray slender gray murky gray steady gray glaze gray crescent gray bullet gray trance gray

 

 

*orchids tumbling in the air, scot-free.

 

Upstate New York Gray  (no. 2)

 

gray straight gray gray cream gray pencil ¾ halo cream dissolute dismissive gray cream gray gray floaty moon collar pencil halo gray still dejavu gray gray lost gray gray gray gray dissolute skullcap moon tumble porcupine gray skullcap schmear reluctant gray one-too-many dizzy gray past gray one-too-many gray lost gray cream-yellow petit moon gray gray gray gray gray slender gray gray murky blue-linen gray bitch crawling dismissive gray gray gray gray floaty gray gray gray past gray gray gray shrewd gray peek-a-boo gray pray gray dream still gray present gray glaze fluent gray gray gray fatty dream tumble gray gray dizzy slender gray trance gray gray gray moon quotidian bullet gray gray gray behind-the-scenes brick ¾ cream-yellow cream bitch gray gay future gray altar duplicate gray skullcap gray gray sheer gray

 

 

 

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Shira Dentz

Shira Dentz is the author of five books and two chapbooks, most recently door of thin skins (CavanKerry), how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, 2018) and the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Diálogos, forthcoming 2019). Her writing appears widely in venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and NPR. Her poems have received awards including an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem Award, and Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. Before pursuing graduate studies, she worked as a graphic artist in the music industry in NYC. A graduate of Iowa Writer's Workshop, she holds a PhD from the University of Utah, and currently is Special Features Editor at Tarpaulin Sky and lives and teaches in upstate NY. (Author photo credit: Eleanor Goldsmith)

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