Waterline
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A body is sixty percent
ocean & the rest, sediment — A ship at sea bears load to the plimsoll, its safe burden — If a limescale fresco remains to mark history, the flood’s rise & fall, without me jumping in to live it again, the scene where I don’t wear a diving bell, where I free-dive grasping one breath — there’s no line for that, only the primal sense of treading water in bed. |
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Tanya Grae is the winner of the 2016 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa, and author of the chapbook Little Wekiva River (Five Oaks Press, 2017). Her full-length manuscript, Undolled, was a recent finalist for the 2016 Four Way Books Intro Prize and the Brittingham/Pollak Prizes. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, New Ohio Review, The Florida Review, New South, Barrow Street, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and is currently a poetry PhD student at Florida State University. Find out more at: tanyagrae.com.
Bahar Yurukoglu was born in 1981 in Washington D.C. She lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. She earned her MFA in 2011 from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston and her BFA in 2003 from the School of Visual Arts, New York City. Selected solo shows include Flow Through, ARTER, Istanbul (2016), Self-Titled, Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul (2014), Melting North, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2013). Two-person and group exhibitions include Intimate Horizons, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR (2014), the 2013 Biennial, Decordova Museum, and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, MA. She has been artist in residence at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2013), the Arctic Circle (2015), and in 2017 with the Clipperton Project in Antarctica. Learn more at www.iambahar.com.