Ann Pedone

Two [2]

[my body tangled
doublefolded and red
you tell me
sex is the
making of marks]

[           a strange heat came between us
lets the self recede    always receding
if you come inside me
in full sun
maybe a woman is
the slowest form of electricity          ]
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Ann Pedone graduated from Bard College with a degree in English and has a Master’s Degree in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley. Ann is the author of the chapbook The Bird Happened, and the forth-coming chapbook perhaps there is a sky we don’t know: a re-imagining of sappho. Her work has recently appeared in Riggwelter, Ethel Zine, Main Street Rag, Poet head, The Wax Paper, The Phare, e-ratio, West Trade Review and The Open Page Literary Journal, among others.