Ode to Bossy Bottoms
Marvel, popped up like tulips in snow. Urgent bell in a boxing ring,sharp as the lip of a rocks glass. Music box of baubles that bites us back.Lit, uncracked coil, tin pan batter boiling over. Hello, sour cherry center-fold. Good night, miracle text, book shut around my finger, filled with the pressingsand beautiful names of all the things that belong to you. [End Page 230]
Eric Tran is a resident physician in psychiatry in Asheville, NC. He is the winner of the Autumn House Press Emerging Writer's contest and the author of The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer. He is also the author of the chapbooks Revisions and Affairs with Men in Suits. His work appears or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere.
