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The poem "Dear B," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: When I remake my life, I will let me lie, less slow with blooms. The dead leaves rattle in their fascinated; Last Line: must be netted first.

The poem "Lake Natron" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Your love's thermal waters, kept from sun; Last Line: The limestone statues of my ankles eat away.

The poem "The Mechanics," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Begin. Last Line: shoulder to the wall.

The poem "The Naming," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: My heart is filled with the many hearts of the river's traveling children. Last Line: Their hearts are where the autumn lives. I wisp there in the gape.

The poem "A Dictionary of Keeping Quiet Between the Monstrous and Holy in the Voice of Marian Parker," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Surrounded by water, I was not a martyr. Last Line: I will not happen at all.

The poem "Conspiracy to Commit Larceny," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: She she she— at the crux of what hurts— (the police came)— thin; Last Line: name)—her name above the bed is ending as I speak—I carve my name.

The poem "IDOLATRY" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: My lover: butterfly on a pin. Sickness; Last Line: I remember the tender O of his mouth.

The poem "A Dictionary of Almost Drowning," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: The sea will go on migrating: four doves, Last Line: as many times as there are knives in its swift machine.

Presents the poem "A Dictionary of the Garment," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: It came to me without warning. Last Line: shot through with the grip and its steady alarm.

The poem "cell" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First line: They think, as greennesses think, of freezing, and of the gowns of dawn; Last line: In a country I thought I could tame, the gorsebush lowered, the pollen.

The poem "specimen slide" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First line: all the scalloped costumes the sample wears, treeing with initial substance, Last line: fat with knots.

The poem "Traits/ The Eye," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: A flexibility that goes beyond the tenderness of its exoskeleton, that goes beyond the yield of the; Last Line: blood, but cannot prove.

The poem "Post Script," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Ultraviolet, my sigh fills the small sink meant to stave contamination off. Last Line: I felt the rehearsal, I lost my nerve.

The poem "The Influence of Vision On The Mind," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: When I slice into the eye's insulation, I am allergic to the fiberglass slivers and to the sirens its; Last Line: any object sinking into a thigh or fervor carved from light.

Presents the poem "Felon's Logic," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: Dear body I do not resent, Last Line: I once forgot to grasp.

Presents the poem "I Have Never Stood Outside a House Burned Down," by Jennifer Militello.

The poem "physiognomy" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Black animals fill the face, silhouettes, buildings fill the face, an alphabet; Last Line: the mind, a hinged thing finding its options.

The poem "A Dictionary of the Afterlife," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: It tangles words, it swims armless with a limb; Last Line: Better to quiet it now while the light's still thin.

The poem "Posthumous," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Our graves will never be found Hounds; Last Line: Shadows like a night that hasn't happened yet.

The poem "How to Behave Post-Heartbreak," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Bewilder the visage to simple, bewilder; Last Line: Forsaken, you doctor it: oxygen: the dark.

The poem "Leaving," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Still throw at her abstraction. Warranty; Last Line: Still throw at her abstraction. Warranty.

The poem "Parenthood Anthem," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Syllables clot. Fists go raw; Last Line: of the laces we cannot bear to loose.

The poem "Parenthood Anthem," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: We could not lay it before us, take its organs out, Last Line: with so many roads. This is the evidence. Anatomical as risk.

The poem "Working With the Instrument," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Kill in the wind what can't be killed; Last Line: Kill its veins, those stalled ravines.

The poem "Securing Romantic Involvement," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: To arrive at a state of mating ritual, snow around. Last Line: contemptible radon. Foamflower. Figure out. Tout.

The poem "A Dictionary Measuring Cause and Effect," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Small bells tremble each antagonistic throat. Last Line: is our bitter horse, working for its keep.

The poem "A Dictionary of Filming the Inside of a Tornado," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Unlid the sag, however late, the long collapse, unlid the weep, Last Line: until they go down.

The poem "A Dictionary of Faith," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Like wind, God eavesdropped in the doorway. Last Line: predators sheltered in the henhouse of the heart.

The poem "Song of Interrogation," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Not about me. Last Line: Not about me or the breaking I live.

The poem "Dear B," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Two months of spasms and still I am not well. Awake is more knives than I can; Last Line: back.

The poem "A Dictionary of Mechanics, Memory and Skin in the Voice of Marian Parker" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: The world is a wind I thought I heard just before; Last Line: the lilies though their bulbs long ago burned out.

The poem "A Dictionary of the Dead in the Voice of the Living Collective," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: They understand the scratch of roots at the ribless chest; Last Line: inside us skinned and mute. Eyes a snapshot of hunger.

Presents the poem "Personality State: Animal," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: I am only wolves, a thin endless shiver of what; Last Line: My memories are necklaces made from its teeth.

Presents the poem "Personality State: Statue," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: Winds start. The black forest fills soft; Last Line: to harness an insomnia of horses.

Presents the poem "Personality State: Husk," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: When I say herons, but mean not so thin. Last Line: A hollow bottled like the sea.

Presents the poem "A Dictionary at the Turn of the Millennium," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: Hello to devouring, hello to digest, Last Line: Adrenaline catastrophe. Hello.

Presents the poem "Interview under Hypnosis," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: Describe what you would have seen had the roosters; Last Line: to believe and for once I believe in nothing.

Presents the prose poem "Dear B," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: I knew it was a vision when I was killed and from my wound grew water. Last Line: I realized I was made of winter, and the will to carry on.

Presents the prose poem "Dear B," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: Today, the rain is a dream of wicker baskets. Last Line: ...with its one hand running a comb through the stars.

Presents the poem "Manifestation," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: Now, without the never gardens, release; Last Line: in wind as if there must be a belief in something.