in a frame above the stairs
ink sketch of a Greek soubrette
in feathered hat and fur muffler

she looks away—

so far away
her features cannot be gathered back

her expression is a dove
flown so far ahead of us

its shadow has returned to perch
here

peristerióna
dovecote

you who flit and fly
alongside

such eyes
you never meet
but in this niche

rise

high above the white hills of the island

Vasiliki Katsarou’s new chapbook, Three Sea Stones, is out this month, by Lucia Press. She is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Memento Tsunami, and co-editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies by Ragged Sky Press: Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems and Dark as a Hazel Eye: Coffee & Chocolate Poems. Vasiliki read her poetry at the 2014 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and has served as a Geraldine R. Dodge Poet-in-the Schools. She holds an A.B. Phi Beta Kappa in comparative literature from Harvard University and an MFA in filmmaking from Boston University. Her award-winning 35mm short film, Fruitlands 1843, about a Transcendentalist utopian community in Massachusetts, will be re-released in 2020.

To order Three Sea Stones, contact publisher MaryAnn L. Miller:

maryannlmiller[at]gmail.com. Checks accepted  ($25+$4 s/h) to Lucia Press, 18 George’s Place, Clinton, NJ 08809