The Bite – for Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero, 1926-2009. Holland Cotter obit here.

    The Bite – Olga Broumas

What I wear in the morning pleases

me:     green shirt, skirt of wine.         
I am wrapped

in myself as the smell of night

wraps round my sleep when I sleep

outside.          By the
time

I get to the corner

bar, corner store, corner construction

site, I become divine.         
I turn

men into swine. Leave

them behind me whistling, grunting, wild.