Shira Dentz

one poem

Frieze

Imagine the moon’s reflection a spoon
curved in a body
in place of womb—
shedding moonlight
where there would be
offspring.
This would have to be all right.

Lunar light, the last word,
bathes in quivers,
silver snakes.

Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK, 2020), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021, and two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Pleiades, Plume, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Brooklyn Rail, New American Writing, Apartment, Poets.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Prize, and Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award. More at www.shiradentz.com.