Maya Pindyck's poems are notable for their wonderful combination of being at once densely packed and voluminous, like parachutes.
—Paul Muldoon
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Locket, Mater by Maya Pindyck
Winner of the 2006 PSA Chapbook Fellowship
Locket, Master by Maya Pindyck, selected and introduced by Paul Muldoon.
Edition: 500 copies of the winning books were printed by the Prolific Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson.
$8.00
July
Under a quick-setting glow, he and I
swallowed seaweed washed ashore; shoved
Fucus and Codium into our mouths
instead of kissing. Rolling
a clamshell between my palms, I studied
his eyelied, then the iris:
a velvet ring.
No—
a snake laced around a black apple.
With twisted zeal he declared his love
for Marine Biology, pointing
to a wooden plank covered in barnacles.
Later I climbed a rope ladder
to his attic mattress, guarded by finger puppets,
a pink camel, prickly pears … Giddy
with sheep hair and pillow flesh, I clung
despite him: already absent.
The me beneath established.
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