← v14n2, Fall 2015
Poetry · Volume 14, Number 2

Quiz: Eros

Being there is to far as being here is to:

A) apiaries at dusk

B) the difficulty of honey

C) the sting, and the tongue’s acquiescence

Woman reaching is to white pennant as woman reading your palm is to:

A) eulogy

B) hostage removing the blindfold

C) her bright lips moving in a found face

Need is to slicing bread as want is to:

A) tearing bread

B) not having bread

C) her shoulders hunched away, the incantation of the knife

Woman waking is to windmill as woman falling asleep is to:

A) rain-rustled branches

B) one stone in each pocket

C) the door opening, the way familiar

The body is to moth’s half-hidden wing as the body in language is to:

A) foxes in a field, once

B) empty fields and a woman who loves you

C) empty fields and a woman