Like Empires and Languages — Blackbird Archive

← v11n2, Fall 2012

Marilyn wore

many rings,

and a redwood’s worth

of layered skirts.

When she stood at the center

of Times Square

and confessed

our questions,

a light changed

from green to red

like birdsong,

interrupted.

history language

Jasmine Dreame Wagner

Jasmine Dreame Wagner is the author of Charcoal (For Arbors, 2008), a chapbook of poems. Her writing has appeared in American Letters & Commentary , Verse , Colorado Review , Indiana Review , North American Review , and 32 Poems . A graduate of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Montana, Wagner served as Writer-in-Residence at The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education in Townshend, Vermont, in the summer of 2006.