Cynthia Cruz
Dregs II
Grab the blankets,
The whiskey and palinka.
I’ll build us a boat made of money and warp.
Honey, and the dark fugue
Of foreboding.
Pack the song, dirty in its drone,
Its filthy doom
In a jar of black
Blood, and crushed
With snow.
Please
Don’t let me go.
The boat,
It will take us
To the sweet
And filthy water,
The murky
Forever
Of death’s
Endless slumber.
Cynthia Cruz
Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Book and her second collection, The Glimmering Room, was published by Four Way Books in 2012. Her third collection, Wunderkammer, is forthcoming in 2014. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.