cockle
my heart-shaped secretion
my exposed symmetry
a specimen
in the sediment buried alive
bilateral suction
a siphon
i am edible in shapes
The
author of numerous poetry chapbooks, Northern California poet Melissa Eleftherion’s first full-length poetry collection is Field guide to autobiography (H_NGM_N Books, 2017), a collection
made up of short sketch-poems in three sections: “auto/,” “/bio” and “field graph [no guide].” The short poems
of Field guide to autobiography are
rife with a sense of play and the visual field of the page, sketching a
quickness of phrase, deft turns and halting language. Utilizing details and
influence from published field guides to trigger poems blending other elements
of information, including biographical, the poems in Field guide to autobiography do have a sense of rushed movement,
nearly breathlessly so, streaking across each page like a meteor shower; or, as
she writes in the poem “sea cucumber”:
spines
buried deep
tentacles
grown over and again
a
skeleton mouth
to
grab the crumbs
to
be inside a body
there
is a fur
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