On canes, in chrome chairs, or led by hand they take their seats on this side of Styx. One wears Cher-like shades over a butterfly rash, another has fit her limbs’ grimace into the pink of a madras dress. Someone breathes heavily in the corner. Your name stands on a manila file by the door. […]
Heather Treseler’s poems appear (or are forthcoming) in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, Notre Dame Review, Obsidian, Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, and Southern Humanities Review, among other journals. Her essays appear (or are forthcoming) in Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and in six books about postwar American poetry. […]