Pursuit, Dublin
 
My destroying angel has the genitals
of a man and a fickle heart.
On Grafton Street the shoppers
absorb him without a shriek.
 
Laceless shoes, ringless fingers—
nothing to slow my gait,
though if he’s manly, he’s a fair wind—
I erode by grains.



*American poet Carrie Etter has lived in England since 2001. Her first collection, The Tethers, was published by Seren in 2009, and her second, Divining for Starters, will be published by Shearsman next year. She has also edited an anthology, Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010).

Pursuit, Dublin was first published in the TLS