Messenger
The other word for angel
in greek angellos
backs of envelopes
poems in lemon juice
on backs of envelopes
miracle that anyone ever
received a letter
expect something, they say
but when the package arrives
it’s just a little baby
of clay or plaster
Puffery:
Mazarine Treyz majored in Literature, Gender Studies, and Poetry at Bard College. She studies with Larry Fagin and Hoa Nguyen. She is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Faberge Wrecking Ball, 2011, OK TO GO, 2002. Her poems have appeared in The Hat, the South African Jewish Review, and the Des Moines Times Picayune Gazetteer.