“Saffron Immolations,” by Martha Zweig (Poetry ’98)

Poetry alum Martha Zweig was recently featured in Defunct. Read an excerpt of “Saffron Immolations” below:

Saffron Immolations

Sweet dreams of fire:

orange filmy sheets my mother snapped

afloat to make our beds with Mondays then

when I was small & fearless.

 

I was the tiger’s eye:

I made up the tiger’s mind & gave it its courage,

banished its shame, practiced its jungular amble

& let its long tongue loll.

 

Read the rest of this poem here: https://defunct.site/issue/10/authors/127/martha_zweig/258/saffron_immolations