SYNTH
for B.K.
I relish the way
your neck bends
when you know
I have a daytime
particular for you,
how your legs kick
into a circular stride,
perhaps glowing
in the night, arcing
the dark with greens
and pinks and blues,
I imagine you tilting
your head like
that in the matte
black, your sweat
falling like crystals
toward the floor.
Bio:
Sandra Marchetti is the author of three full-length books of poetry, DIORAMA (Stephen F. Austin State UP, 2025); Aisle 228 (SFA UP, 2023); and Confluence (Sundress Publications, 2015) as well as four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her poetry appears in Ecotone, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Essays and stories can be found in Pleiades, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, The Account, and other venues. She is Poetry Editor Emerita for River Styx Magazine.
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