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A.M. Lisa Mullenneaux (bio) Softly softly, you’ll wake the clams. —T. Roethke That beach dream again. The one whereI am a horseshoe crab and wash up tornby a galactic sea, legless without my helmet. I boil caffeine to fuel my thoughts,which like stray dogs in back alleys scavengeothers' leavings for the scent of something fresh. So much happened before my screenwent dark with light, exposing the garbage bagsnaked, curbside. I want to remember before the day’s machinery beginshow the sea peeled back its apron, strandingbream and amberjack, leaving them sucking air with faces like Giotto’s saints who escapedsienna-skirted on steps they carved out of blue airto pull a silken bell cord, to ring in morning. [End Page 64] Lisa Mullenneaux Lisa Mullenneaux’s latest chapbook, “Keep Talking to Her, Private,” (2017, Post Traumatic Press) details the devastation of our “endless wars” on soldiers and civilians. Her poems and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The New England Review, The Tampa Review, and others. Among contemporary Italian poets, she has translated the work of Anna Maria Carpi, Amelia Rosselli, Patrizia Cavalli, and Maria Attanasio. Copyright © 2019 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents
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