Transit of Venus

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

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Transit of Venus

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The actors mill about the party saying rhubarbbecause other words do not sound like conversation.In the kitchen, always, one who's just discoveredbeauty, his mouth full of whiskey and strawberries.He practices the texture of her hair with his tongue;in her, five billion electrons pop their atoms. Rhubarbin electromagnetic loops, rhubarb, rhubarb, the din increases.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's first collection of poems, Black Swan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), won the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Rattapallax, Shenandoah, the Women’s Review of Books, and other journals, as well as in anthologies Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Role Call, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, and Common Wealth. Currently at work on a second collection of poems, Open Interval, she is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University.

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