Two poems by Martha Zweig

Two poems by alum Martha Zweig (poetry, ’98) appear at Waxwing Literary:

Fever Blessing

                   maggot: archaic, a whimsical fancy

Short work a day’s malaise
has made of me! Thus far I body forth
what you see before you: crank
of sickbed arts, toilet articles, nighttable
tumbler of ice, a black cracker, white-hot bulb
peeping from under its ruched shade, irritable
minority of which? (or another?) one
bookish hallucination I might pick.

Continue reading Fever Blessing and Martha’s second poem, Minna, online….