REBECCA PELKY

SAINT JULIAN PRESS POET

 

Poems from — Horizon of the Dog Woman

RITA DEL GARDI & THE NIXON PIGEON VANISH


When you left, you left
like the tide going out.

And I know, I’ve said it
before; you left stains

like high water on my body,
where I tally each new month;

this one closer to my chin,
this one just under

my collarbone, that month
the hawks went north.

You said beauty
had ebbed, left birds

to settle down in the ridges
between my hipbones and ribs.
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Rebecca Pelky © 2019

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Rebecca Pelky was raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, surrounded by Great Lakes. She is an enrolled member of the Brothertown Indian Nation of Wisconsin, and is of Mohegan and European descent. She began publishing poems later in life than some, after spending thirteen years as a zookeeper and wildlife dietician. Rebecca is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she is a Gus T. Ridgel Fellow.

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