Absolute Bearing
- Absolute Bearing
Manuela, there's a boat at the dockhome to a rabbit, its hutchfull of heat and sweet straw
I'm lying in a house, warm enoughRock and roll is here to staysays Big Star over the current
Here to stay
Sun pools slowlylike milk on the panesof your cold frame
I used to always think about starsNow I walk out at nightto news of more people dying
Air folds in and aroundmy listing body
I hold a heart full of friendsI won't see for years
Manuela, when you stand at a dockdoes the sweet sound hold you there
Your body a star full of sky
The sweet soundof everything breathingthe sweet soundof everything sound [End Page 191]
Trenna Sharpe is from South Pittsburg, Tennessee. She lives and works in London, England. She has an MFA from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the North American Review, Sinister Wisdom, the Tangerine, and others.
