Issue > Poetry
Julia Leverone
Julia Leverone adjunct lectures at UT Dallas in Spanish and Creative Writing. Her second chapbook, Little Escape, won the 2016 Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Prize from JMWW; her book of translations, Fuel and Fire: Selected Poems of Francisco Urondo, is forthcoming from Diálogos Press. Her poems have been placed in Cimarron Review, Salamander, Posit, and other literary venues. Julia edits Sakura Review.The Bear
I have decided on the grizzly.
To want it; to have it amble before me,
not across a thicket of light years
slowed in the dimensional sky,
igneous and drifting—too mythical—
but determined on the soft-shorn
ridgeline of a sloping glacial hill.
My bear moves constantly so that
unless I shift it slips outside of sight
and heads for the next, higher. My bear
it moves as straight as sun clouds.
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