Talvikki Ansel
CPC Readings
Wednesday, November 10, 1999
with Craig Arnold and Brigit Pegeen Kelly
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Ballroom
Poetry by Talvikki Ansel
Don't Tell Me
it’s iron, the bottle
crouched on its white pedestal,
long beak spout and wide open handle
you could see starry sky through.
Valentine's Continue reading
Slippage time, sky darker
than yesterday,
cold snap forecasted,
a gray screen over the river
and the old fort, ice chunks.