The Cleaving of Biface*
(30 x 40) acrylic painting, Irene Koronas
*first published in Offcourse Literary Journal
lithic cornea, manuscript cover
spathodea
crow
massac buried by rival
500
at first wungh wave
head
weed. he peels yellow
clusters.
ear to fire. furl
straight
stand elite. period.
20,000
shell beads fifty women
spread
on monks mound. frond sway
cacti
snake stitch
tuttering
willow censers
horn
lizard canal. priest pit.
rabbit
scales flood land
hostile
nomadic scrub
hove
sight for 17,000 years
numic
bands on conifer forest
bisect
the spiral
wide
u branch
big
hole people
breast
stag
wad
walls
a
vulva cro fat loop
fertile
nag
ripe
behind bat wing
hole
stub
punica
tick
ravens (oionistai)
and
ornis bots merge
lag.
Hohokams statue us
answer
emet
book
2, chap 9
see below
combine 23
letters
nefesh in
place
iii
more
redact tissues
—Irene Koronas
