Tayve Neese
Bio
I.
Prophecy of the Four-Legged
Coyote
Emitting Smolder
Only Her Buried Hand Rises
Reviving the Sow
Cradle Song
Piranha’s Noon Conversion
II
Oath to the Mouth
It Was the Year of Cold Soup
Garifina Mother and Daughter Tending Meat
The Swayers of Belize
Thinking of Homelands
Cormorant Keeper
III
Father Convicted in Genital Mutilation, Daughter Age 2
Midnight in the Aviary
If My Hand Trembles, Let a Falcon Rest Upon It
Nepotism in the Aviary While Feeding the Amazon
Light shudders when it has to face the rooster
Zoology
Still, we wait for sounds of plumage
IV
For the Weavers
Giving Backbone
Banishing the Glassblower
Kwan Yin, Skating Backwards
Saraswati, for my mouth,
For the Dancers
They blame the she-dog
Incubation
V
Hatching
Origin of the Alphabet
Conch
Cantata for Bella
Foliage
Green-Sleepers
Seed-Swallower
VI
Under Ground, Over the Aquifer
When the torso falls
My mother left this world as a whooping crane
Season of Pysanki
She does not want this origin, the sea
Eclipse
Furless
VII
The Orchard
Kali’s Identity Crisis
Invertebrate for the Sleepless
Bee Legends
I am tired of the intricate
Spring Pivot
New Poems
Lessons at the edge of the Yadkin
Vocalist - Linsay Rousseau
Blood to Fruit - David Robert Books - 2015
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