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TAKE TWO: BLACK JACK / Branwell Bronte & His Drinking Mug
is it my carrot top or the pale sisters painted
yet myself removed turned into a sloe-eyed pillar
since I am not quite real crave gin and poppies
Black Jack for sleep sin-steeped set my bed afire
for I lust keen to peel off their gossamer collars
(blow-up) unhook denude taste cherries
and Black Jack hidden down there Anne in
a book-lined study a heathered heath for Emily
then for Charlotte my Charlotte castles in Angria
I the intruder am ill enslaved by the unreal
what I want to die standing up like my pillar
but even more (climax) true friend to Branwell
Brontë I want Black Jack mine theirs
and that sodding poppy sweet canker-rose of Lethe
*Ghost Town
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Susan Terris’ most recent books are Take Two: Film Studies (Omnidawn Publishing, Fall 2017), Memos (Omnidawn Publishing), and Ghost of Yesterday: New & Selected Poems (Marsh Hawk Press). She is the author of 6 books of poetry, 16 chapbooks, 3 artist’s books, and one play. Journal publications include The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, and Ploughshares. A poem of hers from Field appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI. A poem from Memos was in Best American Poetry 2015. Ms. Terris is editor emerita of Spillway Magazine and is a poetry editor of Pedestal Magazine.
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