S Stephanie
S Stephanie’s poetry, fiction and book reviews have appeared in many literary magazines such as Birmingham Poetry Review, Café Review, Cease, Cows, Clover & Bee, Hole in the Head Review, Iowa Review, One, Rattle, St. Petersburg Review, Southern Indiana Review, The Southern Review, The Sun, Third Coast, Turtle Island Review, Dream Pop, Hamilton Stone Review, and many anthologies. She has three collections of poetry out. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art and teaches poetry and writing on both the community and college level. She lives in Rollinsford NH and respects cats.
Lyric for Gilgamesh
In my dream
sheep forever remind me
of his blue sweater I knit years ago,
the meadow’s spring grasses, of the sheets
on our marriage bed.
Yet the deer that grazed there
the bears that ravaged the berries
even the curious birds–all gone!
I pleaded with Gilgamesh: Where?
What watery world do they nest in now?
This morning, not a breath stirs
in my kitchen, yet
such savage chatter of memory
goes on behind closed cupboard doors.
And outside―the city’s wall
crumbling―one lost brick at a time.
What other tests will I fail
before the boatman lifts his oars?
