Glass jaw: poems

Diatribe on women gladiators. I'm not sure why I still pray

Anna

Delia

Carmen

The opposite of catcher's mitt

Melissa

Esther

Kate

Even the days bleed like cuts

Arya

Kira

Midnight dark is my friend

Samiya

Alex

Coach X.

Jess

I didn't stop to ask how

Purgatory

Purgatory

Here this hollow space. Canto 34: before dawn, with the street lamp's beam across your face

Canto 33: can I write this?

Canto 32: I rewind it

Canto 31: my black underwear hangs above the lemon trees

Canto 30: I became within my speechlessness

Canto 29: a knife scrapes off the scales

Cnato 29: from July until September

Canto 28: carried by the hair, the severed head

Canto 27: no exit

Canto 26: within those fires, there are souls

Canto 25: two intermingled shapes appeared

Canto 24: on seeing

Canto 23: were I a leaded mirror

Canto 22: wings were not more fast than fear

Canto 21: I saw it, but I could not see within it

Canto 20: I was well prepared to stare below

Canto 19: we had already reached the tomb

Canto 18: with polished words

Canto 17: I felt the threat of shame, which makes a servant...brave.

Canto 16: around my waist I had a cord

Canto 15: that spirit having stretched his arm toward me

Canto 15: in the dusk

Canto 14: I traveled in a spiral, I never finished the whole perimeter

Canto 14: where I haven't gone

Canto 13: both words and blood

Canto 12: stones, which oftentimes did move themselves

Canto 11: upon the margin

Canto 10: I come not of myself

Canto 10: solve for me that knot

Canto 10

Canto 9: holy words all confident

Canto 8: I turned toward the sea of all good sense

Canto 7: for with unbroken words they cannot say it

Canto 6: touching a little on the future life

Canto 5: I came into a place mute of all light

Canto 4: as it seemed to me from listening

Canto 3: to commingle with the coward angels

Canto 2: and I, the only one, made myself ready to sustain the war

Canto 1: how hard a thing it is to say

Notes

Acknowledgements.