poetry quarterly

10th anniversary

LANGSTON HUGHES TRIBUTE ISSUE

C.R. Resetarits

 

DARK WATERS

Dark sonnets
to dark men
kept in dark places

can flow
like lava
crude or
black ice
knowing

not all rivers
are clear or easy
or ever fully mapped.

 

 

 

C.R. Resetarits's work has appeared in numerous journals including Kenyon Review, Gender Studies, Fabula, Parameters, and Dalhousie Review. Her most recent work appears in the Native American writing issue of The Florida Review. She recently moved to Washington after three years in the tiny village of Hursley, Hants, UK. She is acclimating.

 

Published in Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2011.