Three Poems

Late Dynasty Statuette

in clerestory antiphon
let angels hug your theory head
and paint your sugar nails

Grace

the small musketeers of the second world
some tiny grassy carousel
your wild dogs, arachnid
the sands here

Valentine

wearing bright ecumenical tides
in a shimmering waterveil
with my sleeved teal limbs
i collect small flat stones
for constant storied worlds

Elizabeth Treadwell lives and writes in California. Her most recent book is Virginia or the mud-flap girl (Dusie, 2012).