A Crown of Hornets
Marcia Pelletiere
Pelletiere’s poems convey a visceral sense of the poet’s harrowing recovery from brain injury after a car – truck accident that altered her experience of both body and language.
“MALADY OF RECOGNIZE” from A Crown of Hornets
Slow is how
the shapes
randomly
shift before they
gather names
behind the eyes.
Inside this skull
can you find signs
of what erratic charge
came piercing,
reckless, in? Who can
tip back the faulty weight
whose slivered ends
cracked the mast
where seamlessness
had been?