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"AND ALSO WITH YOU"

​for Lauren
​I follow your lead: rise when you rise, open
            the hymnal, watch when the priest
 
smudges your forehead with ashes.
            It’s a day you love, your heart setting out
 
into thickets of restraint. When we turn
            to our neighbors and hold their hands ―
 
dry, cool, or frail — I’m shocked by the casual
            intimacy. It’s like coming out of the earth,
 
this thawing earth, where I spent all winter
            weeping, weeping, weeping.
 
Our Uber takes us back to town while I look out
            the window in my distracted way.
 
Before opening the door, I kiss your warm cheek.
            You ask where we’ll have gimlets later.
Picture
Sarah Malakoff. Untitled Interior (blizzard), 2006.

SILVER MILLENNIUM

Scientists predict plastic, nuclear fallout, and chicken bones
will be humanity’s legacy on Earth. Why a girl
 
might live on the moon.
 
A prince and princess fell in love on the moon.
Ice skating near grand boulevards where water poured
from scalloped bowls.
 
A sword. A mirror. A jewel. Things on her bureau. Things
which might lead to an end.
 
Now,
on Earth you wash your child
with rationed bottled water.
Take a swig. Then your partner.
 
The moon in the sky like smoke.
What’s left must be split between you.

Derrick Austin is the author of Trouble the Water (BOA Editions). A Cave Canem fellow, his work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, New England Review, Nimrod, and other anthologies and publications. He was a finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Sarah Malakoff’s large-scale color photographs are examinations of the home as both a refuge from and at times a re-creation of the outside world. She has had solo exhibitions at Camerawork Gallery in Portland, Oregon; Miller Yezerski Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; The Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro, Vermont; the Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts; and Plane Space in New York, New York. She received 2001 and 2011 Fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a 2011 Fellowship from the SMFA, Boston. A monograph, Sarah Malakoff: Second Nature, was published by Charta Art Books in 2013. She is an Assistant Professor at UMass Dartmouth and her work can be seen at www.sarahmalakoff.com.
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