BLUEGRASS IN A BOTTLE
It was under a pale disc
A moonlight
sailor -
pie oysters,
osiers,
siesta. Rose
ripples, a pail
rim-lip, old
scar, o blue -
mine.
Moonlight sailor
tailoredloose,
bottoms-up,
transverse
from an old
sea, old sea.
Cristiana Baik is currently beginning an MFA program at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She's taking printing classes with the Book Arts program, and has recently launched a small press :::the press gang::: with letterpress chapbooks by Juliana Spahr and Karen Volkman in the works, and a chapbook by Kate Bernheimer just published. Cristiana's poems have been nominated for the Best New Poets 2007 anthology.