the Shakespeare scholar says
we are no longer an audience but a crowd of spectators --especially here, I think, facing each other on a subway car each buffeted by his own thunderstorm on the seat's meager moor and all in mute contract not to pry not to hear the lines we can see each other mouthing a string of spectacular specters only the man in the corner corporeal head bent over a large bruise-edged bouquet of white asters small petals tangled like hair
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Nina MurrayNina Murray is a native of Ukraine. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her translations and poetry have appeared in Agni Online, Prairie Schooner, Lumina, andCosmonauts' Avenue. Three poems were included in The Untidy Season, an anthology of work by Nebraska women poets. |