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In middle with other

By Felicia Zamora
Poetry•Vol. XXIX No. 3 (Winter 2016)

& the three butterflies lightly suspend just

above the road, knee high; flutters of six

wings, in almost embrace; what we think

we know of instinct; aren’t we all in hover

& slightly out of place, bringing a bent

kind of beauty with us in our gait; show me

what your gait looks like? I’ll show you mine.

Contrasts of yellows & oranges in delicate

bob against asphalt—something

necessary & at work here; where concrete

winds, so too, winds the work of insect; say

my thorax of me, my speckled body; say I wonder

in air & find you in pause, in witness; we all in

the middle with other, round & round

until whatever limbs we have tire {of} us.

Felicia Zamora
Felicia Zamora is the author of the book Of Form & Gather, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize from University of Notre Dame Press (2017). She won the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse, and authored the chapbooks Imbibe {et alia} here (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and Moby-Dick Made Me Do It (2010). Her published works may be found or forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Meridian, North American Review, Phoebe, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, The Adirondack Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Michigan Quarterly, The Normal School, TriQuarterly Review, Verse Daily, Witness Magazine, West Branch, and others. She is an associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University.

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