fruit flies kiss

fruit flies kiss
my lips searching for
drops of wine

my cashmere

my cashmere
is finest champagne
to the moths

ELLEN PECKHAM

Ellen Peckham has read and published poetry and exhibited artworks in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. She frequently uses both art forms in a single work, the text decorating and explicating and the image illuminating. Her archives of drafts, edits, and art are collected at the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, and a seven-minute visual biography, Parallel Vocabularies, is available on DVD and via her website, ellenpeckham.com.