The 2River View | 27.1 (Fall 2022) |
Jane Zwart Because the human body is a tube, food that sleds the esophagus halting the whole machine. about the body’s narrows, where as he says. Outside swap meets embracing plaster busts–heads three-fifths of a slow dance for a posy of leaky pipes, Old men, no less slick or glad Manual —for Adrian Dallas Frandle In this diagram, a camel faces a goose, a hare a wolf, a rabbit Adrian is right about the last pair. Between them there’s an air like a begging collie’s. The goat has curled his beard. How far of a single hand. One puppeteer puts forefinger and thumb to make a muzzle, he smudges a dromedary on the wall. stretching her bowling pin body. A wolf is another matter. joined in the quaint clasp of prayer. The hare, too, is a secret For the child, there is no instructional graphic, but once I sat Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, and TriQuarterly, as well as other journals and magazines. website
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