The Shining Sky
Elizabeth Kelley Bowman
two, god of the shining sky
and god of war
here i offer this plate of anger
ivory-gold anger from the marrow of my bones
and silver anger from my eyes
let all my lifeblood run
like the river slow and heavy
unsurprised like the river
undismayed, undammed
flowing
shining like the anger
mottled silver ova of my anger
let me shine like that silver sky
blue and gray and green
silver that flows, too hot to touch
the illusion of a blue curtain
this soft darkness, this soft rain
dieu, dyeu, tiu, tiw, two
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Elizabeth Kelley Bowman is assistant professor of comparative literature and new chair of the women and gender studies program at the University of Guam. She works with adaptation, gender, and film.