
That video where that woman opens up her
cunt so wide that
she can pull the whole animal
length of language straight out and it is the most
beautiful cunt in the western hemisphere
while Marie I never kept a
diary when I was a kid Never learned how to ski or
hunt Everything happens to me blue as a kite
Lifting a case of non-dairy creamer into the
back of my car and yet
still so far away from being
fluent in porcelain fellatio while Marie is
in the back getting turned on by
satellites, spiritual things and extremely
large industrial fishing boats
Describe for me in as much detail as you
can a brand new family farm just
outside of Minneapolis there are many, many
reasons why while Marie I prefer
being sedated whenever
I have my stomach pumped During
the sacred process of
grinding beef so much confessional
poetry is inevitably made
Even though you have always been an introvert
thinker you waited for me out on the drive
way with a saucepan
full of chopped eggplant your pupils
dilated almost pastoral like the
idea of heat being trapped in a very
small room with all the lights out is not sweet
while Marie coming to love my
seven blessed children even when they are unruly
harvesting bright gigantic chorus
It goes without saying that when I am
older I will know much
more about sheep
I might have a pair of sturdy boots and the sex
drive to match which is the way economics has
always worked In case
you run out of salt for your eggs you can always
call me There are paperclips in the
drawer and extra cans of tomato
sauce while Marie three gallons of
brightest milk makes snowbirds
Ann Pedone is a poet and translator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of The Medea Notebooks (spring, 2023 Etruscan Press), and The Italian Professor’s Wife, winner of the 2022 Press 53 Award for Poetry, as well as the chapbooks The Bird Happened; perhaps there is a sky we don’t know: a re-imagining of sappho; Everywhere You Put Your Mouth; Sea [break]; and DREAM/WORK. Her work has recently appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Narrative, Chicago Quarterly Review, Carve Magazine, Conduit, and Best American Poetry blog.