Sixfold Poetry Winter 2023
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Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.
In Sixfold Poetry Winter 2023:
Selena Spier | Red From The West & other poems :: Pamela Wax | Talk Therapy & other poems :: Ana Reisens | Honey Water & other poems :: Mark Yakich | Necessary Hope & other poems :: Bridget Kriner | A Few Lies & a Truth & other poems :: Keegan Shepherd | Silver Queen & other poems :: Alaina Goodrich | Sacred Conflagration & other poems :: George Longenecker | Those Who Hunger & other poems :: Hailey Young | Ball Room & other poems :: Sébastien Luc Butler | Aubade & other poems :: Savannah Grant | Ever Since (v.2) & other poems :: grace (logan) | Dynamic & other poems :: Samantha Imperi | A Poem for the Ghosted & other poems :: Corinne Walsh | Limerence & other poems :: Kayla Heinze | Stop checking the score & other poems :: Richard Baldo | Chasing Through to Dawn & other poems :: Alex Eve | A moment & other poems :: Robert Michael Oliver | Prison Hounds & other poems
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Sixfold Poetry Winter 2023
by Sixfold
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2023 Sixfold and The Authors
www.sixfold.org
Sixfold is a completely writer-voted journal. The writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the prize-winning manuscripts and the short stories and poetry published in each issue. All participating writers’ equally weighted votes act as the editor, instead of the usual editorial decision-making organization of one or a few judges, editors, or select editorial board.
Each issue is free to read online and downloadable as PDF and e-book. Paperback book available at production cost including shipping.
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Sixfold Poetry Winter 2023
Selena Spier | Red From The West & other poems
Pamela Wax | Talk Therapy & other poems
Ana Reisens | Honey Water & other poems
Mark Yakich | Necessary Hope & other poems
Bridget Kriner | A Few Lies & a Truth & other poems
Keegan Shepherd | Silver Queen & other poems
Alaina Goodrich | Sacred Conflagration & other poems
George Longenecker | Those Who Hunger & other poems
Hailey Young | Ball Room & other poems
Sébastien Luc Butler | Aubade & other poems
Savannah Grant | Ever Since (v.2) & other poems
grace (logan) | Dynamic & other poems
Samantha Imperi | A Poem for the Ghosted & other poems
Corinne Walsh | Limerence & other poems
Kayla Heinze | Stop checking the score & other poems
Richard Baldo | Chasing Through to Dawn & other poems
Alex Eve | A moment & other poems
Robert Michael Oliver | Prison Hounds & other poems
Contributor Notes
Selena Spier
Raspberry
Nothing comes to life until you name it.
Just as it took saying light to make it.
What’s left over drifts
through the mind’s sieve
and sinks to the bottom.
Coats the tongue like an afterthought,
but can’t survive on its own outside the body.
Bright world, there you are—
thumbing through magazines, waiting for me
in the lobby. The bone-white pills
I cradled in my palm. The drive home silent.
In the new snow, fingertips shining
with sugar and grease, the heating pad
pressed to my abdomen. Bright,
bright world. How the knot of fear unraveled
at the sight of what had left me: blood.
Just blood.
And a pale clump of cells,
no bigger than a raspberry.
Playing Dice with the Universe
You won’t find me in your matrices.
You should know that—haven’t you searched
for a woman in her body, and found
neither woman nor body? I will not yield,
I will not take the shape of your container.
There are two variations of knowledge:
you cling to the one that is stored in the body,
is prone to the body’s distortions.
I sing the body dialectic.
I am kinetic, I am chemical—
I am the die and the hand that casts it,
the faces, the dots and the sum
of the numbers they signify.
I am your black luck and resurrection,
god-headed chance,
the act of measurement.
Red from the West
A halo circumscribed the place
where the little beast
sank its teeth in. We waited days,
a week. No symptoms, no fever.
None of our terrors bore fruit
in the end. Flickering shapes
on the brain scan turned out to be
tricks of the light. Candles left untended
guttered out. We left the oven on all morning once,
came home at noon to a hot house.
And the years began to repeat themselves.
And everything reminded us of something else.
So summer shrinks from the surface
of the skin—the air goes brittle—
the wide fields overtaken by milkweed
and goldenrod.
Still Life
The doorway to that bedroom coincided
with the outer edge of time. It was always
as you’d left it: crowded shelves
and