Monday Poems: "My Sentence" -- by Dana Levin

—spring wind with its

             train of spoons,

kidney-bean shaped

             pools, Floridian

humus, cicadas with their

             electric appliance hum, cricket

pulse of dusk under

             the pixilate gold of the trees, fall’s

finish, snow’s white

             afterlife, death’s breath

finishing the monologue Phenomena, The Most Beautiful Girl you

             carved the word because you craved the world—

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Dana Levin has published three books of poetry: Sky Burial (2011), Wedding Day (2005) and her first book, In the Surgical Theatre (1999), which won the APR/Honickman Award. She is the Russo Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico, and also teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.