1 poem
Kasane, After
we both kept at one time either orchids or
a wish for orchids; we wanted either to be
or to have names which mean manifold;
made journeys unbegun; cut paper skies;
we remain.
girl-in-the-moor chases after
a horse to give its rider her image and name—
girl made vanishing point,
girl receding, meaning
many; in his gone she has weight, makes
a creak on floorboards; she sets the same blue
cloth on a new table;
she returns to the moor,
empty; her hands break flowers’ wet stems.
Abbey Frederick is a poet from upstate New York and the design editor for Seneca Review. Her writing has appeared in New Delta Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.