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POETRY - ISSUE FOUR

Bell in the Water

CYNTHIA CRUZ

Darboven panels and a catalogue 
Of stars. Or death. 

Through the rush
Of newly driven snow. 

Evening, I wander lakeside
Heavy with the tomb of sorrow

Dropped deep inside me. 

Ephemera, and trauma. 

I thought I could stop
The incessant hum

By moving from city
To city, 

By starving clean 
The body.

The miraculous leveling out 
Of meaning. 

Obsessive archiving and collecting 
As a means to stop the hum and drone 

Of memory, the diamond-white 
Rush of doom.
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The Silver Cradle



I rode in a golden Benz 
Into the silver scrim.

Cells, dust, and scum.
Love, my dumb and fevering

Fox, the black sin of fear, 
Singed deep within us.
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Cynthia Cruz is the author of three poetry collections: Ruin, The Glimmering Room, and Wunderkammer, forthcoming in the fall by Four Way Books. Her essays, book and art reviews have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, The American Poetry Review, and The Rumpus.
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