by Alice Fulmer

This poem is one of many included in Faunalia, by Alice Fulmer. Find out more at the bottom of this page.

This whole world is Cæsar

with the walls & the laws,

for there were no saviors in the time of Nero,

just lyres, moaning far cries from the

beloved. The streets are

camera obscuras and the gods,

they’re watching, again, from the old houses

It’s Babylon or bust. The

Scrabble-headed affair

is a rat’s nest with cracked eggs,

the yolk with semen — the Khus

with the Khabs, anumodana

Take the best of the world

and you’ll see a phoenix

never risen. So many laws

unspoken.

There’s no great white North,

but to the sufferings

of the South, an Easterly wind

migrates like broken onion chives,

a rabid stench of the greed of a few

medieval merchants who just wanted

good deals on spices and paper and the

rest of what’s known as aisle four.

The petty dreams of Venetian

harbors & Portuguese princes

holds us back like the weight of

porcelain dolls in grandma’s

oak hutch from Indiana

Alice Fulmer

Alice Fulmer (she/her) is a contemporary poet and medieval scholar based in California. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English at University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2020, she received an Honorable Mention from Academy of American Poets for a small manuscript. Find her nowadays reading in bed, with a cat named Precious.

Faunalia, by Alice Fulmer

$12.00

“…Run me past the aqueducts,
of misery waft me, sift me, calibrate the
portions of my soul unmotherseen.
Prepare me for a harvest of nines
and nones and kneed in me those
moments in meadows and prices
Of pearls. Craft me into a homily
of the Earth and its green spots.”

From Alice Fulmer comes a collection of poems lushly vulnerable and soul-shakingly sensual. As with the best magical realism, her poems reveal just past arid city streets a sudden swell of verdant life.

“In that golden aged year, I learned that Grief is
a place you go, where you hang out with
dryads with tall tales, dripping off their boughs,
just to fill Apollo’s birdbaths with coins at the bottom.”

Specifications:

84 pages, 5.5 in x 8.5 in, perfect bound, matte cover, black&white interior.

Faunalia, by Alice Fulmer released into the world 1 May, 2023, and it retails for $12 US

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