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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center More Anne Shaw Poetry Archive		Anne Shaw Anne Shaw's work has appeared in journals including "26", "Phoebe", and "Hayden's Ferry Review." She lives in Milwaukee and teaches creative writing at Carthage College.

Shibboleth Anne Shaw

A florida I enter in the name sends out its spikes. The name is a pod for the child. See how the self rattles around inside? And such similitude of love. I am hove up. A rope to apprehend. Barnacled. As instinct. A hand to shuttle forth. As if our increment were whole: The pouring-out of waters over stone, a shelf of grasses, pressed beneath the wave. Or gill net, opalescent gill. A substance to refute. Omit the sibling fist of wind, the hook, the redundant gale. Now the tongue will sorrow forth its crisp and bloody pod. The seed is always mute. A cut exposes the wifely pith.

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