In Full Velvet. Jenny Johnson

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      Copyright © 2017 Jenny Johnson

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Johnson, Jenny, 1979- author.

      Title: In full velvet / Jenny Johnson.

      Description: Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016014117 (print) | LCCN 2016027029 (ebook) | ISBN 9781941411377 (hardback) | ISBN 9781941411384

      Subjects: | BISAC: NATURE / Ecology. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.

      Classification: LCC PS3610.O3564 A6 2017 (print) | LCC PS3610.O3564 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016014117

      Interior and exterior design by Kristen Radtke.

      Manufactured in Canada.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Sarabande Books is a nonprofit literary organization.

      This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Sarabande Books with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

      Contents

        Title Page

        Copyright

       1

      1  Dappled Things

      2  Summoning the Body That Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes

      3  Tail

      4  In Full Velvet

      5  The Bus Ride

      6  In the Dream

      7  Severe

      8  Elegy at Twice the Speed of Sound

      9  Dorothy’s Trash:

      10  There Are New Worlds

      11  Altitudes

       2

      1  Souvenirs

      2  Eagle Lake

      3  Pine Street Barbershop

      4  Gay Marriage Poem

      5  Folsom Street Fairytale

      6  Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner

      7  Little Apophat

      8  Fish Out of Water

      9  Spaces

      10  Vigil

      11  Desire among Sparrows

      12  James River

      13  Victory

      14  Aria

      15  Late Bloom

        Notes

        Acknowledgments

        About the Author

      Thank you day for dappled things—

      For ambrosia beetles streaking skylines inside a maple

      For pansies speckled as a painter’s sleeve

      For russet-crusted sidewalks of lichen, airy springs

      of fiery-structured fringe For pink corpuscles

      making midges soon to burst out the undersides of leaves

      Thank you for all that’s still somehow

      counter, original, spare, and strange

      For the brightening swell of a honeybee’s sting

      For the alien markings on my girlfriend’s cheek and how

      they form a perfect triangle

      Thank you for the risen stars on the skin of an apple,

      which I slice into fine, thin crescents

      For dapple is a word derived from apple

      and apple once meant any fruit at all

      born from a tree: lemon, fig, persimmon

      Thank you road apple, finger apple, earth apple

      for all that apple was before apple acquired

      a stigma for being forbidden—

      Marked, dappled, shadowed grappling,

      stamped juice, controlled smudging of

      what twinkles unthinkably

      And because I’m minion this morning to gay old music

      Thanks Gentle Hop for this this-ness,

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