THE ARGONNE HOTEL PRESS CHAPBOOK SERIES

Selections from MYTHS & ELEGIES
Poems by ROSE SOLARI

Achilles on Shore • Hephaestus and Hera • Elegy for the Five-Sided Box • Abortion Elegy: What I Know About Her • Persephone • In the Garden • My Mother’s Piano • Your Face • Premature Elegy • CUPID & PSYCHE: A SEQUENCE— After the Cliff: Psyche Begins Her Story • Cupid’s Predicament • Elegy for the Dark: Psyche’s Letter to Cupid • Cupid’s Disappearance • Psyche Remembers Where She Started— Persephone 2 • Elegy for the Wrong Idea • Elegy for Heat • Diagonals and What is Real: Adonis and Aphrodite • Deer • As If to Remind Us of Everything • Poem for Grace

$7.00 US • 48 pages

Copyright © 1999 The Argonne Hotel Press. ISBN 1-88761-22-X
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Deer
You said she looked like a beautiful naked
woman, coming out of the trees, wary
but not frightened, ready to counter
any move we made toward her. We moved
toward each other, your hand probing the tear
in my jeans as if you were searching for something
precious—fifty-year-old single-malt scotch,
maybe, or a silver, five-pointed star. At first,
I could not stop watching her while, almost sure
of us, she lowered her head to the grass. Then
there was nothing but your hair and the curve
of your neck beneath it, the sound of our breath
and that other, wilder whisper, the breeze
coming up from the valley, tender on our skin.
The next day, hiking without you far off
the road, I spotted a buck climbing the hill.
When he saw me, he stood stone still and met
my eyes. And I thought how hard each of them
must work to be worthy of the other, and how
neither one, neither one, has to say a word.