Sunday, February 11, 2024

MIRANDE BISSELL—"AIR POEM " (Issue 27)

AIR POEM

Loft Mountain after a day of midges 
and sweat. I sleep long enough to start over. 
Night wind lifts the tent’s fabric like a tongue 
plays on a tongue, has waited for us 
to want something more than rest. 

The air has the calcium sweetness 
of well-water. It’s bone-building air. 

I have a collarbone to cool, blushed-apple 
shoulders to round. All these years, we 
should have comforted each other. 



ABOUT THE POET 

Mirande Bissell is a teacher in Baltimore, MD. Her first book of poems 
Stalin at the Opera was selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2020 
Ghost Peach Press prize.



ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW 


We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an 
opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of 
poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors 
from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to 
hear it.

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