Peter Kline
Eve
The bottles scatter shots of god.
I eat the summer, rind and flesh,
and summer makes my body good.
The bottles scatter shots of god
through snaking corridors of blood
but spare the apple on my head.
The bottles scatter shots of god.
We eat the summer, rind and flesh.
Peter Kline is the author of two poetry collections, Mirrorforms (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Deviants (Stephen F. Austin State University Press). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and James Merrill House and Amy Clampitt House resident, he teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and with Stanford University’s Master of Liberal Arts Program. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He lives in San Francisco.