Two Poems
Nava Fader
Maybe you’re looking / for the pretty lizardess
(Garcia Lorca)
in pansies panties pretty straightforward
if you ask me simpleton panhandler whither
goes the wind I go dimwit down
to the vale unwrap rushes milkpods
lush to my loving hose
sodden fingertips of dawn
washed out vigilant and to the waterhole
tickingly pound
a nail or two measure
in menses moon will not let you
but tricks of the light lemon
balm poxy this fool’s
parsley bouquet granite
filament tresses withstand
My prayer is growing ripe (Rilke)
pulled as plums midwivery
restorative chicanery sleight
ventriloquism upon your vision
as seen through a veil
dappled simpering dimpling
cheeks apple blossom shadowed
by first snow
snickers along the periphery
who can tell if they simper
sympathize coagulation
of senses pastilles
do melt lose
integrity in favor of
taffytongue your hair
on my shoulders braided
resting and for strength
Nava Fader received her Masters from the UB Poetics Program, writing her thesis on Adrienne Rich. She is the author of All the Jawing Jackdaw (BlazeVox) and several chapbooks. Most of her work begins with a line by somebody else. Recent projects include a manuscript of fake translations from Dante’s Inferno, poems using Wikipedia, a book of riffs off Michael Basinski’s book Trailers called Hitching Post and a chapbook of poems from J.H. Prynne.
