e l i z a b e t h    s a v a g e

from Jane Suite

for Alyse Knorr and Thomas Devaney

Jane Rules

The Calm of Influence

Jane Rules

Your mother
& your daughter
& my

secular Mary
nowhere contrary

           without
ignoring

tie your skirts
alert
           in love in
nocent goes retro
grade
           red
dust trails            off
                                 into the last
frontier

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The Calm of Influence

If I had a mother
if she were my mother
           a copper furnace
burst

           this atmosphere

she is the weight
           (one shiny penny)
in every pocket

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ELIZABETH SAVAGE is author of Idylliad (2015) and Grammar (2012) and Parallax, a new chapbook to be published in 2016, from Dancing Girl Press.

in issue twenty-two

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