“He Shifts to Face Her, Eyes Closed” by E.C. Belli

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plein jeu

He sleeps on her hair, she doesn’t
sleep

but imagines children
dragged to the rim

of forests and hears the dry
canticle of meadow oats

she used to walk past. Now
she lies,

eyes open, mind folded.
He sleeps.

She didn’t leave so much
to join him

as to escape
the others, she thinks.

He sleeps.
Waking doesn’t matter

now:
they’ve agreed

on the 40th
as Sunday music.

She knows
they love each other

because together
they don’t mind

when someone they love
dies.

–E.C. Belli,
plein jeu
(Accents Publishing)

A Swiss native, E.C. Belli’s poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Gulf Coast, FIELD, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Antioch Review, Western Humanities Review, Caketrain, Mid-American Review and also in Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle, PO&SIE and Voix d’Encre (France). Her prose has also appeared in Words Without Borders, BOMBlog and Iris (University of Virginia). She is a recent graduate of the MFA program in Writing and Translation at Columbia University where she was the recipient of a 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She writes in both French and English.

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