tree trunk branches
in a clump of U
sprout like a pitchfork
of chicken bones
guarding its meat
Glyph Aubade
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books), winner of the 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, VOLT, Quarter After Eight, New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Colorado Review, Idaho Review, Allium, Court Green, New Orleans Review, Puerto del Sol, NELLE, Nat. Brut, Apartment, Annulet, Academy of American Poets” Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org), Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Poetrysociety.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the University of Utah, and currently lives and works in upstate NY. More at www.shiradentz.com