Dolly Lemke: Girl Cento
Her words became us a honey that hurt
Suppose we could describe movement
through bluestem and aster
Removing her cardigan she sat cross-legged
A woman spoke she answered in her language
She keeps staring up
between sticky knitting needles
She thinks it grows from one’s yearning for dogwoods
Let’s see if she’ll run away
and be a page girl to the world
Horsey-girl who has been failed by the body
DOLLY LEMKE received her BA in English with a creative writing concentration from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She recently completed an MFA in Poetry at Columbia College Chicago where she currently teaches freshman composition and works for the small feminist press Switchback Books. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in wicked alice, Columbia Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2010, Horse Less Review #8, and Umbrella Factory.
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