Vinland
by Jamie Ross
Winner of the 2008 Four Way Books Intro Prize selected by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
ISBN: 978-1-935536-99-4
paper, 82 pages, $15.95
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PUZZLE
A sweetness, she says, strange now
how the air tastes, in these wharf-
shapes that form the room. Like sugar
into water, for the spinning birds, a kind
of sticky pink and then the ocean, gray
again, they alternate. Like boxes—waves
of boxes, the black and then the white,
each one lisping Give a color, just a sound,
the one that goes across—
Her table, with its lozenge tray, sea-green
pills. A silent glass of water, that
never will be emptied. She drops her pencil
in my hand. Canoe, she says, eleven letters—
canoe, maroon canoe...
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