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Rose Maloukis (she) is a poet and visual artist with a BFA from Wayne State University, Detroit, who in 2015 found that her painted lines were turning more and more into written ones. Since then, she has been shortlisted for an international award, won prizes from Geist and Arc Poetry Magazine, and been published in The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly. Her chapbook, Cloud Game with Plums, was published in 2020 by above/ground press. She is guest editing an issue for Turret House, a new small press which publishes The Frog Pond Review. Several of her recent line drawings, as concrete poems, are part of her first full-length collection.
You
in a quiet bird brown room
looking down I want you
to turn
to me
from thought and speak
like an actor in an aside
who reveals his character
Tell me of your hands
pointing two directions
my own decisions there
the choice to love you
and gaze inward from the world
as lovers do at the beginning
seeing only the beloved in light
how ecstatic the view
Your dark hair falling long
there is so much
loosely held contrast
the leaning
intoxicating
vulnerability of your neck
exposed pale skin and
eros between your lines
urging
brush points outside
a small window a gradient blue
pause balance return
bright leaps the pull of you
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