Riley, M. E.

English

University of New Orleans

Ellipsis Volume 41 Article 4 2014 Blue Falsetto after Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of Her Feet" M. E. Riley Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ellipsis  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Riley, M. E. (2014) "Blue Falsetto after Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of Her Feet"," Ellipsis: Vol. 41 , Article 4. Available at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ellipsis/vol41/iss1/4 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English and Foreign Languages at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ellipsis by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact scholarworks@uno.edu. Blue Falsetto    after Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of Her Feet"  M. E. Riley  Vassar Miller Poetry Award Winner      You won't look me in the face I'm a hound that's killed  things we once loved so you look   my feet paled from winter paws roughened by gravel stiff branches they   hardly hold the weight of my body cold statue you admire   Your waist is a place your chest gives ground sandbar by river hums a summer song   I wish I could keep you barefoot and dance lightly around young plants bearing in dry soil   Too much to raise your eyes across the rest of me you look at my feet yours walked   over spring ground where you found me cover same terrain when you leave      

Blue Falsetto after Frank Stanford\u27s  Blue Yodel of Her Feet

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Ellipsis 
Volume 41 Article 4 
2014 
Blue Falsetto after Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of Her Feet" 
M. E. Riley 
Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ellipsis 
 Part of the Creative Writing Commons 
Recommended Citation 
Riley, M. E. (2014) "Blue Falsetto after Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of Her Feet"," Ellipsis: Vol. 41 , Article 4. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46428/ejail.41.04 
Available at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ellipsis/vol41/iss1/4 
This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English and Foreign Languages at 
ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ellipsis by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UNO. 
For more information, please contact scholarworks@uno.edu. 
Blue Falsetto  
  after Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of Her Feet"  
M. E. Riley 
 
Vassar Miller Poetry Award Winner 
 
 
 
 
 
You won't look me in the face I'm a hound that's killed  
things we once loved so you look 
  
my feet paled from winter paws 
roughened by gravel stiff branches they 
  
hardly hold the weight of my body cold 
statue you admire 
  
Your waist is a place your chest gives ground 
sandbar by river hums a summer song 
  
I wish I could keep you barefoot and dance 
lightly around young plants bearing in dry soil 
  
Too much to raise your eyes across the rest of me 
you look at my feet yours walked 
  
over spring ground where you found me 
cover same terrain when you leave  
 
 
 
 


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