Luisa Villani
is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in poetry.
Her work has appeared in The New England Review, The Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review and other literary journals.
She teaches at the University of Southern California.
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Famulus
I sit on the ledge of a reclined book—
little buzzard-kneed creature,
with my hands on my door-knob
knockers—waiting for a good hush
and a click . . .
Look: the pen touches her lip . . . time
to rub my pewter jaw, time to flick
the carbon sparks from my spiked hair
and let them prick. “An idea is like
an itch,” she thinks. Yes. Good. Good.
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