Spring: Forensic Anthropology Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Spring: Forensic Anthropology Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Author(s): Dana Levin Source: The Iowa Review, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring, 2006), pp. 96-98 Published by: University of Iowa Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20152130 . Accessed: 14/06/2014 11:15 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . University of Iowa is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Iowa Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 91.229.229.44 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:15:44 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Spring: Forensic Anthropology Center, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleAuthor(s): Dana LevinSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring, 2006), pp. 96-98Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20152130 .
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DANA LEVIN
Spring
Forensic Anthropology Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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The sun, in shafts and spades.
Through the pine and birches, little breeze setting off
the leaves?
The leaves.
Their golden green increase.
Pollen to the air, its colonial dream
of a new imperium of trees?
Snap against the wrist-skin.
And then you press down on the tongue with your gloved thumb
to let the honey-bee show you the way.
2.
The dark tunnel paths from light to light.
Flay the face and scoop out the eyes?you'll see.
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Bees in a cloud round your hand.
Egg-herder, your smell
synonymous with treasure?
Shining a light at the back of the throat:
blowflies
in liquid pearls the bees murder to eat?
And all at the lips and nose a yellow dust, pollen
they have
delivered?
You scrape it into a little sack.
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Ripple and snap.
Bend to the O of the rigored mouth?listen.
Plastic bags, like souls, caught in trees.
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What to harvest,
from the sloughed-off suits of the dead.
Like sea-shells cupping the ghost-tongue of the sea,
their black mouths speak?
You crouch to the hum with a bag and a blade. You
the god it sways.
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