Electra (III)
Her dress is a mapping pattern
Tracing peers.
A spectrum of burst bird
Weaponizing singsong.
Fast forward our figurine to
A spot on the smashed shale floor
Now in the glistening air.
She coughs fruit, a plum in the larynx.
Palms the pit, hand outstretched.
A dove left at the transom
Of her lover’s hut.
Tends their luckless foreplay
coddling a plum line from Polaris.
In rope burn colored light.
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Geoffrey Detrani is a visual artist and writer. His work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles and South Korea. His artists’ books are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His paintings are in the collections of the Schenectady Museum, the Transportation Security Administration and various private collections. He was an artist-in-residence at the former World Trade Center, with a studio on the 91st floor. His writing has appeared in Crowd, New Orleans Review, New Delta Review, Massachusetts Review, First Intensity, Epiphany, 14 Hills, Parthenon West Review, Black Warrior Review, 6×6, Fence, Canary, Tarpaulin Sky, CutBank, Red China, and Eleven Bulls, among other publications, and is forthcoming in Aufgabe, and a Fence magazine anthology.
