Accompaniment
In sorrow—this floral arrangement—
(I am both—lily & stem—
the clean green line
you trim cognate of my
own. Let her arctic
bell & gamboge-spiked
tongue give voice—
apologia I cannot utter)
Yours,
—Rebecca Dunham, Bayside
Rebecca Dunham’s most recent book of poems, The Flight Cage, was published by Tupelo Press in 2010 as an open reading selection. Her first book of poems, The Miniature Room, won the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize and was published by Truman State University Press. She was the 2005-2006 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, won the 2005 Indiana Review Poetry Prize, and has been the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in poetry. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including FIELD, The Antioch Review, AGNI, The Journal, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, and Crazyhorse. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.