Still Life with Stump & Skull
Over a hundred years, no doubt, & big enough to need grinding, left instead to gray& grow smooth.
Bellingham Review Contributor
Mira Rosenthal is the author of The Local World, winner of the Wick Poetry Prize, and Territorial, forthcoming in the Pitt Poetry Series. She is a past fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, and Stanford University’s Stegner Fellowship. Her work appears regularly in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Guernica, Harvard Review, New England Review, A Public Space, and Oxford American. Her translations of Polish poetry include Krystyna Dąbrowska’s Tideline and Tomasz Różycki’s Colonies, which won the Northern California Book Award and was shortlisted for numerous other prizes, including the International Griffin Poetry Prize. Her translation of Różycki’s Litery is forthcoming from Archipelago Books.
Over a hundred years, no doubt, & big enough to need grinding, left instead to gray& grow smooth.