tiled necklace

a sound suspended, weighted, wind over fired clay, a pattern of bluffs of gray cliffs and black, a bracing of brass wire in landscape, copper wire twists it, copper and brass twist it, a sounding, black a bluff hinged against angle of a neighbor, knife-formed angle of heat, bright ceramic (heat) voice against her thorax, wind a voice bound in brass, in copper wire, black ceramic ash, buff and black against her breasts, red clay landscape etched in ash (copper) heat, fire-formed voice hinged in brass, in hinged angles and wire, knife-edged bluffs a bright heat suspended, a sound, landscape and bracing















Marthe Reed’s poetry has most recently appeared in Exquisite Corpse, New Orleans Review, Sugar Mule, and Golden Handcuffs Review. From haunting the streets of Providence and the arid coast of Western Australia, she now makes her way amid the live oak woodland, cypress wetlands, and suburban sprawl of southwest Louisiana.


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