Mannequin Envy
a journal of visual and literary arts
~fall 2006 ~
| "I
am a brat from northern California, in school to become a Physician's
Assistant, and have appeared in a variety of poetry, photography and
art journals, both online and in print.
I am the Assistant Editor of The IBPC, Chief Photography Editor for
Surface Online, and board owner of The Versifier Online Poetry Forum. Some publications include: Quercus Review, Pearl, The Beat, Poetry Canada, 63 Channels, Thunder Sandwich, Spent Meat, Underground Voices, Zygote in My Coffee, 12 Gauge, The Melic Review, Surface Online, All Things Girl, Erosha, Antipatico, Poems Niendergasse, Haggard and Halloo, Locust, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, Stirring, A Little Poetry (forth-coming), From East to West, and Babel Magazine." http://cherilynferroggiaro.blogspot.com/ The Succession of Early Exaltation First is the ache worn soft at the breast, a slow burn that quickly turns to an unruly blaze. Because, because love can be mulish, merciless, a broken appendage, a tumult above the hemline— each moment one in its own. There is the initial fall; a touch against flesh, in introversion, almost always in introversion— a blossom along the thigh that marks the beginning of courtship, hesitant like the epitome of love, or standing in the middle of a channel, contemplating the meaning of a whisper—when the ear feels breath but cannot get the gist. Perhaps, it is voice that flutters away, white noise that rises to the surface, gestures that lie bare beside splintered glass —a wreck of views. And in a rented room, you glance from behind linen, see yourself up to your knees in cloud-less blue— only it is not cloud-less blue; it is the snow of bitter winter, where the eyes now lose all color, where language slips deep into a lover’s mouth and like first rain, slowly dissolves line by unrehearsed line, struggling free from the structure that held it for so long— drawing last breath before forever like a crossbow or an idle conversation caught on the tongue, gasping for reprieve. |