Mirjam Frosth

ABOUT THE FISHMONGER’S WIFE

Careless is a man shucking
brides like bait mussels––
to show such indiscretion,
            to fatten so in these times.
Here is the image of a wife
in a thatched smokehouse––
she sleepwalks from fire
to fire, setting start again.
The little oily herring
come wrapped in paper,
whole, of course, or kippered,
or the headless bucklings.


CARD

Your sunflower vase, a wedding gift,
slipped in my terrible hands.
I wish I weren’t scattered so.


MIRJAM FROSTH is a Swedish-American poet, photographer, and free climber. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, near a very tall oak tree.


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