paper • 68 pages • 15.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-945588-18-1

Dregs

Cynthia Cruz

On Washington Independent Review of Books’ September 2018 Best Books List.

A collection of poems constructed like a series of film montages or collages showing what the world looks like now. 

Like a series of slides from a film reel, the poems of Dregs reveal the ruin, remnants or dregs left over from the wars and economic and human inequalities of our world today.

THE HOUR OF THE STAR from Dregs

In the blue séance room
Beneath the stacked chandelier,

The miracle of sorrow, or
Milk and stars.

The deep
Key of death.

A black
Error on the edge

Of the tall
Blonde field. 

And no one knows 
Where that besieged city is. 

But to go back 
To that 

Little town and be born, 
Again.